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Ahsan Iqbal was born on 28 March, 1959 in Narowal District, Punjab, Pakistan, is a Pakistani politician. Discover Ahsan Iqbal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?
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Narowal District, Punjab, Pakistan |
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Pakistan
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Ahsan Iqbal Height, Weight & Measurements
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Ahsan Iqbal Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ahsan Iqbal worth at the age of 64 years old? Ahsan Iqbal’s income source is mostly from being a successful politician. He is from Pakistan. We have estimated Ahsan Iqbal's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Belonging to a Punjabi Rajput family, his maternal grandfather Chaudhry Abdul Rahman Khan was a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly during the British Raj, later the family had to move out of Jalandhar, now in Indian Punjab, due to the 1947 partition.
According to The News International, he was born on 28 September 1958.
Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary (born 28 March 1959) is a Pakistani politician who is serving as the Secretary General of Pakistan Muslim League (N).
According to PILDAT, Chaudhary was born on 28 March 1959.
He attended the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore to study mechanical engineering in 1976 from where he graduated with BSc in 1981.
In 1984, Chaudhary attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from where he did MBA in 1986.
Dawn reported that he also attended Government College Lahore, Georgetown University and Harvard University.
Chaudhary started politics as president of the student union of University of Engineering and Technology.
He was then associated with Islami Jamiat Tulaba, student wing of the right wing Jamat-i-Islami.
His mother Nisar Fatima was the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on reserved seats for women in the 1985 Pakistani general election.
His brother Mustafa Kamal has served as the chairman of the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA).
Chaudhary received his early education from the PAF College Sargodha.
Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1999 and from 2008 to May 2018.
In 1993 Pakistani general election, he became member of the National Assembly for the first time after winning constituency NA-117 of Narowal.
In 1993, he served as Policy and Public Affairs Assistant to then Prime Minister of Pakistan.
He was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly for the second time in 1997 Pakistani general election.
when his party PML-N won clear majority in National Assembly for the first time in the history of Pakistan, Chaudhary played his role in several key government positions.
He was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan with the title of Minister of State, chairman Pakistan Engineering Council and was also a chairman for the National Steering Committees on Information Technology and IQM and Productivity.
He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan from 1998 to 1999 during the Sharif's second ministry.
He currently serves as federal minister for planning and development since 19 April 2022.
Chaudhary continued on the positions allotted to him till the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état in which then Chief of Army Staff, Pervez Musharraf, overthrew elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his existing elected government.
Dawn reported that on Chaudhary's initiative Pakistan's first national IT policy was formulated.
During the Musharraf rule, Chaudhary taught management at the Mohammad Ali Jinnah University in Islamabad from 2000 to 2007.
Chaudhary is considered a loyalist of Nawaz Sharif who kept the PML-N alive during the Musharraf rule.
In 2002 Pakistani general election, he lost the National Assembly seat.
But after PML-N decided to sit on opposition benches due to a disagreement with PPP related to the reinstatement of the judges dismissed by former President Pervez Musharraf in 2007, he resigned six weeks into the newly formed PPP-led coalition government.
A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), he served as the Minister of Planning and Development of Pakistan and the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of Pakistan in the third Sharif's ministry and briefly held the portfolio of Minister of Minorities and Minister of Education of Pakistan in the Gillani ministry in 2008.
In 2008 Pakistani general election, Chaudhary was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly for the third time.
He briefly served as the Minister for Education of Pakistan with an additional portfolio of Minister of Minorities' Affairs in the Gillani ministry.
In 2011, Chaudhary was elected as Deputy Secretary General of PML-N.
In 2013 Pakistani general election, Chaudhary was made part of PML-N's central parliamentary board tasked with selecting candidates for the election.
Chaudhary was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly for the fourth time in 2013 general election.
He was appointed as the Minister of Planning and Development as well the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of Pakistan.
In February 2016, Chaudhary was appointed as the United Nations Development Programme's 'champion minister' from the Asia Pacific region in recognition of his efforts to promote the Sustainable Development Goals.
He served as Minister for Interior and Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms in the Abbasi cabinet from 2017 to May 2018.
In July 2017, the federal cabinet, which included Chaudhary was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the Panama Papers case decision.
Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhary was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi and was appointed Minister for Interior for the first time.
On 16 September 2017, he was given the additional charge of Ministry of Planning and Development.
In November 2017, he was criticised by the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan Raza Rabbani for not taking Senate in confidence with regards to the crackdown against the 2017 Tehreek-e-Labaik protest which led to resignation of Minister for Law and Justice, Zahid Hamid.
He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023.