Chaudhry Altaf Hussain (
Punjabi and ur, ), was a Pakistani politician who served as the 19th
Governor of Punjab, Pakistan in 1993 and again from 1994 and 1995. Previously, he had been member of the
National Assembly of Pakistan from 1956 to 1958 and again from 1990 to 1993. He was then appointed as
Governor of Punjab which he served for three years.
Early life and family
He was born on 28 May 1929 in a political family of
Jhelum District to former politician
Chaudhry Mohammad Awais
Chaudhry Mohammad Awais was a Pakistani politician who had been member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani province of Punjab, wh ...
.
He is the brother of former Chief Justice of
Lahore High Court
The Lahore High Court () is based in Lahore, Pakistan. It was established as a high court on 21 March 1882. The Lahore High Court has jurisdiction over Punjab (Pakistan). The High Court's principal seat is in Lahore, but there are benches in th ...
and former federal minister
Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain
Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain is a Pakistani politician and former federal minister who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007. He is a businessman and owns Spices village lasani restaurant (now sold) and Spinzer lasa ...
.
His son
Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf
Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf is a Politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018.
Political career
Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf contested on Pakistan Peoples Party's ticket in 1997 from NA-45 Jhelum-I (which was rena ...
and nephew
Fawad Chaudhry
Fawad Ahmed Hussain Chaudhry (born 7 April 1970) is a Pakistani politician and a senior member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, who was Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, in office since 14 April 2021 to 10 April 2022.
Previously ...
currently serving as member of
National Assembly of Pakistan.
Political career
He was first elected to the
National Assembly of Pakistan in 1956 which he served till 1958.
He participated in
1970 Pakistani general election
General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bangla ...
from his constituency but defeated.
In 1981, he joined the
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq HI, GCSJ, ร.ม.ภ, (Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani four-star general and politician who became the sixth President of Pakistan following a coup and declaration of martial law in ...
Majlis-i-Shura and remained a member till 1985.
He again participated in
as an independent candidate which he lost.
In 1990, he joined
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
He once again participated in
1990 Pakistani general election
General elections were held in Pakistan on 24 October 1990 to elect the members of the National Assembly. The elections were primarily a contest between the People's Democratic Alliance (PDA, a four party alliance led by the ruling Pakistan P ...
as a candidate of
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and defeated Raja Mohammad Afzal of the
Islami Jamhoori Ittehad
The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad ( Islamic Democratic Alliance; acronym: IJI; ur, ) was a right-wing conservative alliance formed in September 1988 to oppose the democratic socialist Pakistan Peoples Party in elections that year. The alliance compri ...
(IJI).
In 1993, he was appointed
Governor of Punjab, Pakistan where he served till July 1993. He was re-appointed in April 1994 where he remained in office till his death on 21 May 1995.
References
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1929 births
1995 deaths
Pakistani MNAs 1955–1958
Pakistani MNAs 1990–1993
Pakistan People's Party MNAs
Governors of Punjab, Pakistan
People from Jhelum District
20th-century Pakistani lawyers
Chaudhry family (Jhelum)
Politicians from Jhelum