Aitzaz Ahsan

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April 2007

Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan (* 1945 in Murree ) is a Pakistani politician, lawyer and senator in the Punjab province. He was first elected to the Senate in 1994. Aitzaz Ahsan was President of the Supreme Court Bar Association from 2007 to 2008.

He belongs to the Warraich clan of the Jats. and grew up in Lahore. Ahsan studied law at Government College, Lahore, and received an LLM from Downing College, Cambridge. He applied for civil employment with the Pakistani authorities and passed the entrance exam. Ahsan did not take up the job. Ahsan returned to Pakistan in 1967 and joined the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). He was able to secure a seat in the provincial parliament of the Punjab in the parliamentary elections in Pakistan in 1977 . Ahsan became part of the cabinet and was appointed Minister of Broadcasting and Information. He left the cabinet, however, as the Punjab police shot at demonstrators during protests against election fraud. He rejoined the PPP after Operation Fair Play and actively participated in the Movement to Restore Democracy (MD R). He was arrested several times for this. In the parliamentary elections in Pakistan in 1988 Ahsan was able to move into parliament for his constituency of Lahore for the first time. Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan became part of the Cabinet and was appointed Minister of Justice. In the 2012 Senate election, Ahsan became a member of the Senate for the second time. However, he announced his resignation from the Senate in 2013. Ahsan is a frequent attorney at the Pakistani Supreme Court . He also represented well-known politicians such as B. Yousaf Raza Gilani , Benazir Bhutto , Nawaz Sharif and the former President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari . He was involved in the bar association that campaigned for the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry . In 2008, Ahsan received the Asian Human Rights Defender Award from the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong . Ahsan

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aitzaz Ahsan (en) . In: DAWN.COM , April 23, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Why Cheema ditched PPP . In: DAWN.COM , March 11, 2004. Retrieved August 17, 2018. 
  3. ↑ PPP Decides tickets for six NA seats in Lahore (s) , The News. March 24, 2013. Accessed January 28, 2017. 
  4. ↑ 12 elected unopposed to Senate from Punjab (en) . In: DAWN.COM , February 16, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2017. 
  5. ↑ PPP downfall: Aitzaz Ahsan resigns from Senate - The Express Tribune . In: The Express Tribune , May 14, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2017. 
personal data
SURNAME Ahsan, Aitzaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahsan, Chaudhry Aitzaz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani politician, senator and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Murree