Shujaat Hussain

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was born on 27 January 1940 in the Gujrat District, Punjab, of former British Indian Empire. He was born in a Punjabi Jat family belonging to Warraich clan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gujratpakistan.com/2010/12/chaudhry-shujaat-hussain.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405132953/http://www.gujratpakistan.com/2010/12/chaudhry-shujaat-hussain.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=5 April 2011|title=Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain}} His ancestors hailed from rural Gujrat and had no initial political background.{{cite web|title=Details of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain|url=http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/Chaudhry-Shujaat-Hussain-240|publisher=Pakistan Herald website|access-date=25 October 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220513163013/http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/Chaudhry-Shujaat-Hussain-240|archive-date=13 May 2022|url-status=dead}} His father Zahoor Elahi was a junior constable in Punjab Police but quit the police service to establish a cotton mill. His family lost a cotton mill as a result of Indian partition but re-established the mill in Gujrat after the establishment of Pakistan in 1947. His father first contested in 1954 elections and elected a local union Councillor of the Gujrat District. After attending public schools in Gujrat, Hussain matriculated, and was accepted at the Forman Christian College University. In 1962, Hussain attended the Forman Christian College University and graduated with Bachelor of Business Administration in 1965 and pursued an MA in Industrial management in UK.

Upon returning to Pakistan, Hussain joined the family industrial conglomerate comprising industrial units in textiles, sugar, flour milling and agricultural farms in 1969.{{cite web|title=Chaudhry Shujat Hussain profile |url=http://www.senate.gov.pk/ShowMemberDetail.asp?MemberCode=608 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121221055638/http://www.senate.gov.pk/ShowMemberDetail.asp?MemberCode=608 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-21 |website=Senate of Pakistan website}} By this time, Hussain's family had become a potent industrial oligarchs and had significant influence on presidents Ayub Khan and General Yahya Khan.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain entered in the national politics after the assassination of his father.{{cite book|last=Gupta|first=Om|title=Encyclopedia of India and Pakistan|year=2006|publisher=Isha Books Publications Co.|location=New Delhi, India|isbn=81-8205-389-7|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KR9m6TzO-PsC&q=chaudhry+shujaat+hussain&pg=PA494|access-date=28 May 2012|page=495|chapter=Pakistan and its Business Elites}} After participating in a local-body elections, Hussain became a Member of the Parliament in 1981 and, subsequently joining the Punjab government's Financial department. He participated and campaign successfully in non-partisan 1985 general elections and maintains ties with PML. His contest in the general election from Gujrat included for both seats for the National Assembly and provincial Punjab Assembly. After the elections he vacated his Punjab Assembly seat in favour of the National Assembly seat.

He became a crucial power broker in the Islamist regime Zia-ul-Haq.{{cite book|last=Ali|first=Tariq|title=The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power.|year=2008|publisher=Simone and Schuster Inc.|location=New York, United States|isbn=978-1-4165-6102-6|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uy9Wszkl-awC&q=chaudhry+shujaat+hussain&pg=PA128|pages=128–130|chapter-format=google books|chapter=A Conflgration of Despair}} Hussain benefited with general Zia's economic policies. Hussain invested in industrial firms and mills. Bought Stocks at Karachi Stock Exchange, which benefited him.

After participating in 1985 general elections, Hussain joined the government of Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo as the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and held additional ministerial portfolio of Ministry of Information and Mass-media Broadcasting in 1986; and Ministry of Defence Production in 1987–88.

He was imprisoned during second tenure of Bhutto in 1994 in politically-motivated cases filed by Federal Investigation Agency DG Rehman Malik.{{cite web|url=https://nation.com.pk/24-Jul-2018/decades-of-famous-faces-at-adiala|title=Decades of famous faces at Adiala|date=24 July 2018|access-date=9 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809023554/https://nation.com.pk/24-Jul-2018/decades-of-famous-faces-at-adiala|archive-date=9 August 2018|url-status=live}}

Hussain was the leading member of right-wing alliance, the Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA) and won parliamentary seat during 1988 general elections, and headed the Parliamentary Party of Joint Opposition (PPJO) in the National Assembly from 1988 to 1990. He also acted as the parliamentary party leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) in the National Assembly.

File:Armitage and Shujaat Hussein.jpg, after their July 2004 meeting at the Prime Minister's residence in Islamabad, Pakistan.]]

After 1990 elections and 1997 elections, Chaudhry Shujaat served as Interior ministry. He was one of high-profile cabinet member of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif who appointed Shujaat as the President of the PML-N in Punjab from 1997 to 1999. However, Hussain mounted serious disagreement and confronted Nawaz Sharif after Sharif imposing economic emergency in 1998. Hussain's relations became extremely hostile during the Kargil war, claiming that Sharif had been briefed by chief of army staff general Pervez Musharraf six times as opposed to Sharif claiming not having "knowledge".{{cite book|last=Cohen|first=Stephen P.|title=Four Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia|year=2001|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|location=Washington DC, United States|isbn=978-0-8157-1384-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cSLKn2BoYIC&q=Shujaat+Hussain+Nawaz+Sharif+problems&pg=PA144|author-link=Stephen P. Cohen|author2=Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema |access-date=27 May 2012|pages=144–145|chapter-format=google books|chapter=The Kargil Conflict|author2-link=Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema}}

After the coup, Hussain did not join the Pakistan Muslim League, a splinter group of PML. In 2001, Hussain decided to defect to PML after Sharif was exiled to Saudi Arabia in 2000 and contested from Gujrat through the PML platform during the 2002 general elections. Initially, Hussain became parliamentary party leader in the National Assembly, but assumed the presidency of the party when the party's founder Mian Muhammad Azhar resigned from the party. In January 2003, Shujaat was nominated and assumed the party's presidency after succeeding Mian Muhammad Azhar on a party convention.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain endorsed and provided his support to appoint his lifelong friend Zafarullah Khan Jamali as country's first Baloch prime minister. Previously, he also played a role in bringing Shaukat Aziz in national politics. However, in 2004 Jamali resigned.{{cite news|last=Our Political Bureau|title=Pak parties flay Jamali's 'forced' resignation|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pak-parties-flay-jamali%60s-%60forced%60-resignation/186420/|access-date=27 May 2019|newspaper=Business Standard news}}

{{Rquote|right|The military and ISI will only support and go with you as long as enough of the people are with you.... They (military) are like a horse that carries you "Only" as long as you have strength in your legs....|Chaudhry Shujaat telling Anatol Lieven.

After Jamali's resignation, Shujaat Husain nominated Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz for the office of Prime Minister. Shujaat temporarily become Prime Minister because Aziz can not be elected Prime Minister, as he was a member of senate.

At the Parliament, Hussain told journalists that his election as Prime Minister was "not an interim appointment" but in keeping with the Constitution. In an interview, Shujaat Hussain quoted: "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."

On 23 August 2004, Hussain handed over the office of prime minister to Shaukat Aziz, though Hussain remained the party president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q).{{cite web|title=Shaukat Aziz Becomes Prime Minister|date=8 October 2004 |url=http://storyofpakistan.com/shaukat-aziz-becomes-prime-minister/|publisher=Story of Pakistan website|access-date=25 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629095439/http://storyofpakistan.com/shaukat-aziz-becomes-prime-minister/|archive-date=29 June 2012|url-status=dead}}

The election for Prime Minister took place on 29 June 2004.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is the eldest son of Chaudhry Zahoor Ilahi.{{cite news|last=Adil|first=Adnan|title=Profile: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3850039.stm|access-date=25 October 2024|newspaper=BBC Pakistan website|date=29 June 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112123005/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3850039.stm|archive-date=12 November 2012|url-status=dead}} He has two brothers, Wajahat Hussain and Shafaat Hussain, and six sisters. One of his sisters, Qaisra Elahi, is married with his cousin, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former chief minister of Punjab and also held the post of Deputy Prime Minister in Pakistan Peoples Party's recent government.{{cite web|title=Chaudhry Pervez Elahi|date=21 June 2018 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1415044|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406213606/https://www.dawn.com/news/1415044|archive-date=6 April 2019|url-status=live}} His sister Naaz Elahi is married with Tahir Sadiq Khan, former member National Assembly of Pakistan. His sister Sumaira Elahi is also active in politics. One of his sisters is married with Riaz Asghar Chaudhry, former mayor of district Mandi Bahauddin, and one of his sisters is married with Major retired Sajjad Hussain Chatha, former federal secretary. His younger brother, Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, has also been elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab for three times (1988–1990, 1990–1993, 1997–1999) and also won from the constituency NA-104 of National Assembly in 2002 and 2008 general elections.{{cite web|title=xyz|url=http://www.pap.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/20/964|access-date=7 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619225120/http://www.pap.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/20/964|archive-date=19 June 2017|url-status=live}} Wajahat Force of PML-Q, MNA; and Chaudhry Wajahat Husain, is linked to numerous scams of Hawala and Money laundering, and have wreaked havoc on the local populace.{{cite web|url=http://tns.thenews.com.pk/pulling-the-plug-on-terror-funding/#.V5ZPHtR95kg%5D%5Bhttp://tribune.com.pk/story/623451/eobi-scandal-ex-minister-implicated-in-rs44-billion-scam/%5D%5Bhttp://tribune.com.pk/story/496948/suspended-pml-q-mna-submits-list-of-20-dual-nationals-to-sc/%5D%5Bhttp://www.dawn.com/news/321850/police-crack-down-on-wajahat-force%5D%5Bhttps://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/639643-fia-initiates-probe-against-chaudhrys-for-bank-fraud%5D%5Bhttp://www.pkhope.com/wajahat-force/%5D%5Bhttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/world/asia/17pstan.html?_r=0|title=Pulling the plug on terror funding - TNS - The News on Sunday|website=tns.thenews.com.pk|access-date=25 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005230118/http://tns.thenews.com.pk/pulling-the-plug-on-terror-funding/#.V5ZPHtR95kg%5D%5Bhttp://tribune.com.pk/story/623451/eobi-scandal-ex-minister-implicated-in-rs44-billion-scam/%5D%5Bhttp://tribune.com.pk/story/496948/suspended-pml-q-mna-submits-list-of-20-dual-nationals-to-sc/%5D%5Bhttp://www.dawn.com/news/321850/police-crack-down-on-wajahat-force%5D%5Bhttps://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/639643-fia-initiates-probe-against-chaudhrys-for-bank-fraud%5D%5Bhttp://www.pkhope.com/wajahat-force/%5D%5Bhttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/world/asia/17pstan.html?_r=0|archive-date=5 October 2016|url-status=live}}

Hussain had been a strong and vocal supporter of Pakistan's bilateral relations with South Korea.{{cite news|last=Press|title=Motorway extended Pak-Korean economic & technical cooperation: Shujaat|url=http://www.paktribune.com/news/print.php?id=119878|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=Pakistan Tribune, 21 Sep|date=21 September 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203204216/http://www.paktribune.com/news/print.php?id=119878|archive-date=3 February 2015|url-status=live}} He helped in bringing South Korea investment in the country and supports South-Korean model of economy in the country. For his efforts, the South Korean government named him "Honorary Consul General" of Republic of Korea. Hussain is also a recipient of South 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.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is one of the powerful business personalities in Pakistan.{{cite news|last=Kashif Abbasi|title=Rashid Ahmed, Gul Muhammad Lot emerge as richest senators|url=http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/03/21/news/national/rashid-ahmed-gul-muhammad-lot-emerge-as-richest-senators/?printType=article|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=Pakistan Today}} Hussain is investor in defence production, military technological development, and industrial mills.{{cite news|last=Irfan Ghauri|title=Declared assets: Rich Senators of a poor nation|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/131481/declared-assets-rich-senators-of-a-poor-nation/|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=Express Tribune|date=12 March 2011|quote=Despite rampant under-declaration of assets, Pakistani Senators have net worths running into the millions and even billions of rupees, according to details of asset declarations made public by the Election Commission of Pakistan.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829015943/http://tribune.com.pk/story/131481/declared-assets-rich-senators-of-a-poor-nation/|archive-date=29 August 2011|url-status=live}} According to the statements of assets and liabilities for 2010–2011, 50% of Hussain's share in two residential houses located in Islamabad and Lahore worth ₨. 9.2million and ₨.3.4 million, respectively (although he did not issued the current value). Hussain also owns a 78-acre of agricultural land worth ₨. 376,667 and 12.5 acres worth ₨. 4.5 million.{{cite news|last=Zeeshan Javaid|title=The richest senators|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\03\12\story_12-3-2011_pg7_35|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=Daily Times, Saturday, 12 March 2011|date=12 March 2011}} He has stock shares worth ₨. 10.4 million and ₨. 53.90 million cash in his account.

• Sach To Yeh Hai! (‏سچّ تو يه هے; "This Is The Truth!"), Lahore : Firoz Shah Publications, 2018, 328 p. Autobiography.

• Ch. Shujat Danishwaron Ke Nazr Maen (چوهدرى شجاعت حسين : دانشوروں کى نضر ميں; "Shujat The Man : Scholars' Eye View"), Lahore : Sanj Publications, 2020, 234 p.

• Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi
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