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Ahmad Mukhtar
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This article is about the Defence Minister of Pakistan. For the Iraqi musician, see
Ahmed 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.
Born in Lahore, Ahmad Mukhtar has done his Operational Management from
California, United States and a Diploma in Plastic Technology from
West Germany. Mukhtar is also a graduate of very famous FC 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 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]
He is also the brother-in-law of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)'s current chairman, Ijaz Butt.
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Mukhtar