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.