Ahmad Mukhtar

Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar (Urdu: چوہدری احمد مختار )(born 1946 in Lahore) is the current Defence Minister of Pakistan in the PM Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet.^[1] He is a central leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party from Gujrat District. He defeated Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain from Gujrat NA-105 in 1993 & 2008, the leader of PML-Q party, who was allied with President Pervez Musharraf, in Pakistan's 2008 elections. He stated on 4th of April 2008 that President Musharraf is the national asset, this statement has bring him in controversies as the people voted PPP, PML N and other allied parties only because they opposed Musharraf.

Born in Lahore, Ahmad Mukhtar has done his Operational Management from California, United States and a Diploma in Plastic Technology from West Germany. 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 to be the most likely candidate to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan, along with Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Yousaf Raza Gillani and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, but was later denied, when Yousaf Raza Gillani was announced as the new PM on March 22, 2008.^[2] 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.^[3]

References

External links

• Minister of Textile Industry profile

Political offices
Preceded by Salim Abbas Jilani (caretaker)	Defence Minister of Pakistan 31 March 2008 - present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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