Ahmad Mukhtar

Chaudhry
Ahmad Mukhtar
Ahmad (seated; in middle) talking to American officials.
Minister for Water and Power
In office
4 June 2012 – 16 March 2013
President Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded by Naveed Qamar
Constituency NA-105(Gujrat-II)
Defence Minister of Pakistan
In office
31 March 2008 – 3 June 2012
President Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded by Rao Sikandar Iqbal
Succeeded by Naveed Qamar
Personal details
Born (1946-06-22) 22 June 1946
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party Pakistan Peoples Party
Children 3[1]
Alma mater Forman Christian College

Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar (Urdu: احمد مختار‎) (born 1946 in Lahore) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who is served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan in the PM Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet.[2] He also owns Servis Group.

He is a central leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party from Gujrat District and he defeated Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain from Gujrat NA-105 in 1993[3] & 2008,[4] the leader of PML-Q party, who was allied with President Pervez Musharraf, in Pakistan's 2008 elections.

Former US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with Ahmad Mukhtar in Islamabad, Pakistan, 21 January 2010.

Early life and career

Born in Lahore, Ahmad Mukhtar has done his Operational Management from California, United States and a Diploma in Plastic Technology from West Germany.[5] Mukhtar is also a graduate of Forman Christian College University. He is a businessman who started his political career in 1990 on PPP platform. His brother Ahmad Saeed served as PIA Managing director (from April 2001) and PIA chairman (from April 2003, both until April 2005) during the General Pervez Musharraf era. Now, Ahmad Mukhtar himself has taken the role of chairman PIA from May 2008. He is an industrialist and former Commerce Minister in the 1993–1996 Benazir Bhutto government. He was considered the most likely candidate to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan, along with Ameen Faheem, Yousaf Raza Gillani and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, but was later denied, when Yousaf Raza Gillani was announced as the new PM on 22 March 2008.[6] He became the Defence Minister in the coalition government of PPP, PML-N, ANP and JUI-F formed after 2008 elections on 31 March 2008.[7] He is also the brother-in-law of former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, Ijaz Butt.[8] He belongs to a Jat family of Gujrat.

References

  1. ↑ Children
  2. ↑ Sajjad Malik, "24-member federal cabinet takes oath" Daily Times, 1 April 2008
  3. ↑ 10th National Assembly of Pakistan, "NA-81(Gujrat-II) Result" Archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine. ECP, 6 August 2014
  4. ↑ 2008 Elections Result, "NA-105 (Gujrat-II) Result" Archived 8 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine. ECP, 6 August 2014
  5. ↑ Pakistan Herald, "Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar" Pakistan Herald, 7 August 2014
  6. ↑ Ameen Faheem says he is candidate for PM Daily Times, 10 March 2008
  7. ↑ Amir Wasim, "Parties finally clinch deal on key ministries" Dawn Newspaper, 29 March 2008
  8. ↑ http://cricketfiles.com/2010/01/09/who-is-next/
Political offices
Preceded by
Salim Abbas Jilani
(caretaker)		 Defence Minister of Pakistan
2008 – 4 July 2012		 Succeeded by
Naveed Qamar
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