Monday, March 2, 2009

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Urdu: چودھری شجاعت حسین)

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Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Urdu: چودھری شجاعت حسین) (born January 27, 1946) is a politician from Pakistan who was the Prime Minister of that country from June 30, 2004 until August 28, 2004. He hails from the province of the Punjab, where his cousin Chaudhry Pervez Elahi served as Chief Minister from 2002 to 2007.Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, 58, the prime minister-elect of Pakistan, and president of the ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League, has been in politics for the last 25 years. He belongs to the Chaudhry clan of Gujarat, who have always been known to support the military establishment. And, not surprisingly, their biradari tops the list of those political families of Pakistan who have been the main beneficiaries of all military regimes. They have served the military establishment loyally since the days of General Ayub Khan, when Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's father, Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, was appointed secretary-general of the Convention Muslim League that had been cobbled together by the military dictator to serve his interests.

Hussain's father, Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, a police constable in pre-Partition days, came from the lower middle class and had no political background. After the birth of Pakistan, he bought a textile mill and, in the early 1950s, entered local politics with the support of a local influential, Chaudhry Fazl Elahi, who became president of the country when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was prime minister. Zahoor Elahi, however, soon fell out with Fazl Elahi and formed his own faction on the strength of the sizeable Jat clan that have traditionally opposed Gujarat's traditional elite, the Nawabzadgan of the Gujjar clan.

Charges of Corruption


Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain served as Interior Minister in 1990 to 1993 during Nawaz Sharif government. After losing the election from Gujrat in 1993, In 8 december 1994 Chaudhry Shujaat hussain has been arrested by FIA Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan (special Investigation wing), mr justice Mian Qurban The Judge of special banking courts in Lahore refused bail before arrest application of choudhry Shujaat Hussain After the refusal of bail application from banking judge Mr Justice Mian Qurban,The FIA officials (special Investigation wing )of Lahore Rana Ahmad Hassan and Arshad nawaz Malik arrested choudhry Shujaat Hussain from banking courts Lahore and took him immediately to Islam Abad FIA headquarter because High court of Islam Abad had instructed the local court to render decision by 13th December1994 for the application to cancel the bail of Choudhry Shujaat Hussain, In this banking court Mian Saqib Nisar and Zafer Ahmad advocate appeared in the banking courts Lahore .These all cases were politically made by FIA under the supervision of Mr Rehman Malik Aditional Director General of Federal Investigation Agency FIA.Pakistan People's Party PPP government(1993 to 1996) made many cases (related corruption ,banking loans )against Choudhry Shujaat Hussain through FIA special wing established by PPP Benazir Bhutto government in Lahore Punjab in 1994.

In 1994 ,Choudhry Shujaat Hussain became a member of the Senate of Pakistan and the Chairman of the Senate's standing committee on defence, production and aviation from 1993 to 1997. He won the general election again in 1997 by defeating PPP candidate Ahmed Mukhtar. Nawaz Sharif appointed Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as the Interior Minister in his cabinet, and Hussain was elected the president of PML in 1997.

Politics

Chaudhry Shujaat became a member of the federal parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora) in 1981 and until 1985 when he contested in the general election from Gujrat on both the National and Punjab Assemblies seats. After the elections he had to vacate his Punjab Assembly seat in favour of the National Assembly seat he had one and he became a member of the then Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo’s cabinet as the Industries Minister. He served a further 4 terms as a member of the national assembly after being elected (1988, 1990, 1997, 2002). He also acted as the parliamentary party leader of the PML-N in the National Assembly. Over the years he held several portfolios as a Federal Minister including Information and Broadcasting (1986), Industries and Production (1987-1988), Interior (1990-1993), and Interior & Narcotics Control (1997-1999). Chaudhry Shujaat was an active political leader as well, heading the Parliamentary Party of Joint Opposition in the National Assembly from 1988 to 1990. He was President of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) in Punjab from 1997 to 1999, led the Parliamentary Party then called PML-Q beginning in December 2002, was President of the Pakistan Muslim League in January 2003 and was elected President of Pakistan Muslim League on May 12, 2004.[citation needed]

On the international scene, he has been named an Honorary Consul General in the Republic of South Korea (1982) and was awarded Korea's highest diplomatic award Order of the Diplomatic Service Merit "Ueung-in-Metal" for distinguished services in promoting mutual relations between Pakistan and Republic of Korea.

Nepotism

Ch: Shujaat Hussain and Ch: Wajahat Hussain, both brothers were MNA from Gujrat and now again Chaudry Shujaat Hussain become a senater without any competition in february 2009 senate election in Pakistan .Chaudry Shujaat Hussain's Family called Chaudry family, are very wel-known and powerful espacially in Punjab ,etc Gujrat,Mandi bahauddin,Bhalwal,Sargodha,Atock, has very close ties,relationship with Gondal,Harl ,Noon ,Piracha ,Cheema,Warraich families in Bhalwal and Sargodha. Chaudry family has also very close ties,links,relationships with High-level civil,military bureaucracy (Civil,Police,Army officers) in Pakistan especially Punjab province. The niece of both brothers, Eman Naseem, who is daughter of Maj R Tahir Sadiq, accommodated as MNA from Attock. The daughter of their cousin Ch: Tajammal Husain, Tanzeela Amir Cheema was accommodated on women reserved seat. She is the wife of AAmir Sultan Cheema from Sargodha, minister of Punjab and daughter in law of Ch: Anwar Ali Cheema, MNA from Sargodha,Bhalwal and wife of Anwar Sultan Cheema, MPA of Punjab. Younger brother Ch: Shufaat Husain is Nazim of Distt: Gujrat. First cousin Ch: Parvez Elahi is Chief Minister of Punjab.

Prime minister of Pakistan

After the Nawaz Sharif government was overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf on October 12, 1999, several PML-N dissidents formed a group under Mian Muhammad Azhar's leadership. Earlier, Chaudhry Shujaat did not join any group, but after Nawaz Sharif's exile, he also joined Mian Azhar and formed the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) in March 2001. In the general election of October 2002, Chaudhry Shujaat was elected to the National Assembly. He has also been elected unopposed for three years in a row as president of the PML (Q), which was Pakistan's ruling party from 2006 to 2008.

Ch. Shujaat Hussain, who heads the ruling faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, PML (QA) took the post in a caretaker position on June 30, 2004 four days after Zafarullah Jamali resigned all of a sudden. Chaudhry Shujaat was elected leader of the house after securing 190 whereas his opponent ARD’s Makhdoom Amin Fahim got 76 votes. With a 27-member Cabinet, Ch. Shujaat Hussain announced after taking oath as Prime Minister of Pakistan: "We will continue to pursue the policies of the President with regard to good governance and economic development". Prime Minister Ch. Shujaat Hussain announced formation of a special parliamentary committee to resolve Balochistan crisis by initiating political dialogue and giving representation all parliamentary parties of the upper House in the committee and offered to act as a member of the committee to resolve the problem through talks. Taking into consideration that "the success of the next government will be evaluated on its economic performance," he said this very thinking led the Pakistan Muslim League and its allied parties to select Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz as the next executive head of the country. In an interview, he said: "My nomination by Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and nomination of Shaukat Aziz after consulting the President were in line with the set traditions. There should be no hue and cry over such technicalities". Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain expressed gratitude to Almighty Allah for being the first elected Prime Minister in the country’s history to leave the office, after discharging his obligations (only for 45 days), with dignity and honor.

A notable contribution of the 22nd Prime Minister during his short tenure is the introduction of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill that was hurriedly passed by the Parliament to protect the dignity, reputation and esteem of a person from any false and wanton accusation imposing enhanced punishments for libel. Most probably through the new Defamation Bill, he wanted to save all those from being regularly accused of getting huge bank loans which were later on written off.

Ch. Shujaat Hussain also directed the Punjab Government to declare village Gah in District Chakwal — birthplace of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — as a model village and the Government Boys Primary School at Gah as the 'Manmohan Singh Government Boys Primary School', as a gesture of goodwill to strengthen the peace process between Pakistan and India. Dr. Singh's family migrated to the Indian side of Punjab before Partition. When he became Prime Minister in May, there were celebrations in the Pakistani village where he was born and attended the primary school.

Another significant announcement made by him was that the coffin of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, who evolved the nomenclature 'Pakistan' before partition, will be brought to Pakistan later this year for a formal burial in Pakistan. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali who is well-known for his historic pamphlet "Now or Never; Are we to live or perish forever?" had died in February 1951 and was buried in Cambridge City graveyard. Later, he coined the word 'Pakistan' for the Muslims who lived in the five northern states of India - Punjab, North West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan.

Ch Shujaat Hussain was proved the best opposition and also Ruling leader and also prime minister of Pakistan in 2002 to 2008. On July 9, 2007, he led a delegation that attempted to negotiate with militants besieged in the Red Mosque in Islamabad shortly before the military stormed the mosque compound early the next day.

Shujaat was a candidate in the February 2008 parliamentary election for a seat from Gujrat (NA-105), where he faced Ahmad Mukhtar of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and a seat from Sialkot (NA-112).[2] In what was considered an upset, he was defeated by Mukhtar in Gujrat. He was also defeated in Sialkot.Shujaat subsequently accepted the PML-Q's defeat in the election and said that it was free and fair