Shujaat Hussain

{{Short description|Pakistani politician (born 1940)}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=July 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Shujaat Hussain | native_name = شجاعت حسین | image = Pakistan delegation (cropped).jpg | caption = Hussain in 2013 | office = 14th Prime Minister of Pakistan | president = Pervez Musharraf | term_start = 30 June 2004 | term_end = 26 August 2004 | predecessor = Zafarullah Khan Jamali | successor = Shaukat Aziz | office1 = Leader of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | term_start1 = 1 January 2003 | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = Mian Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry Salik Hussain | office2 = 27th & 29th Minister of Interior | prime_minister2 = Nawaz Sharif | term_start2 = 25 February 1997 | term_end2 = 12 October 1999 | predecessor2 = Omar Khan Afridi (Acting) | successor2 = Moinuddin Haider | prime_minister3 = Nawaz Sharif Balakh Sher Mazari (Acting) Nawaz Sharif | term_start3 = 9 November 1990 | term_end3 = 18 July 1993 | predecessor3 = Mian Zahid Sarfraz (Acting) | successor3 = Fateh Khan Bandial (Acting) | office4 = Minister for Railways | term_start4 = 7 August 1998 | term_end4 = 9 November 1999 | president4 = Rafiq Tarar | prime_minister4 = Nawaz Sharif | preceded4 = Sardar Muhammad Yaqub Khan Nasar | successor4 = Lt. Gen. R. Javed Ashraf | office5 = Chairman Senate Committees on Defence Production and Aviation | term_start5 = 1993 | term_end5 = 1997 | office6 = Federal Minister for Defence Production | term_start6 = 1987 | term_end6 = 1988 | president6 = Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | prime_minister6 = Muhammad Khan Junejo | office7 = Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting | term_start7 = 1986 | term_end7 = 1988 | president7 = Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | prime_minister7 = Muhammad Khan Junejo | office8 = Federal Minister for Industries and Production | term_start8 = 1985 | term_end8 = 1988 | president8 = Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | prime_minister8 = Muhammad Khan Junejo | office9 = Member of the Senate of Pakistan (Senator from Punjab) | term_start9 = 2009 | term_end9 = 2015 | term_start10 = 1993 | term_end10 = 1997 | constituency10 = Punjab, Pakistan | office11 = Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | constituency11 = NA-105 (Gujrat-I) | term_start11 = 2002 | term_end11 = 2007 | term_start12 = 1997 | term_end12 = 1999 | term_start13 = 1990 | term_end13 = 1993 | term_start14 = 1988 | term_end14 = 1990 | term_start15 = 1985 | term_end15 = 1988 | constituency15 = NA-105 (Gujrat-I) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|1|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Gujrat, Punjab, British India | relatives = ''Chaudhry family'' | children = 3 including Chaudhry Salik Hussain | father = Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi | other_party = PMLN (1993–2002) IJI (1988–1993) PML (1962-1988) | party = PML(Q) (2003–present)<ref name=":1">{{cite news|date=29 July 2022|title=PML-Q Fires Ch Shujat, Cheema As Rift Widens Within Party|url=https://nation.com.pk/2022/07/29/pml-q-fires-ch-shujat-cheema-as-rift-widens-within-party/|newspaper=The Nation newspaper|access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> | alma_mater = Forman Christian College University (Bachelor of Business Administration) | native_name_lang = ur }} '''Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain''' ({{langx|ur|{{nastaliq|چودھری شجاعت حسین}}}}, born 27 January 1946) is a Pakistani politician<ref name="Pakistan Election Commissioner">{{cite web|title=Shujaat Hussain profile|url=http://elections.com.pk/candidatedetails.php?id=525|work=Pakistan Election Commissioner|access-date=26 October 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505024728/http://elections.com.pk/candidatedetails.php?id=525|archive-date=5 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="South Asia Tribune">{{cite web|last=Sehbai|first=Shaheen|title=US Diplomats Think Ch. Shujaat Becoming Musharraf's Biggest Challenger|url=http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_ss.htm|work=South Asia Tribune|access-date=28 May 2012|quote=Senior US diplomats in Pakistan and in the State Department are genuinely intrigued about the display of an almost unbelievable confrontationist posture against General Pervez Musharraf, adopted by the most unlikely of politicians in today's Pakistani spectrum— the always obedient servant of the military establishment, Choudhry Shujaat Hussain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104140306/http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_ss.htm|archive-date=4 November 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> who served as 14th prime minister of Pakistan.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-I)">{{cite web|last=Administrator|title=Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Becomes Prime Minister|url=http://storyofpakistan.com/chaudhry-shujaat-hussain-becomes-prime-minister/|website=Story of Pakistan|access-date=27 May 2012|date=8 October 2004|quote=This very thinking led the Pakistan Muslim League and its allied parties to select Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz as the next executive head of the country. 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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505194917/http://storyofpakistan.com/chaudhry-shujaat-hussain-becomes-prime-minister/|archive-date=5 May 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Hussain is the party president of the PML(Q)<ref name="The News International, 2012">{{cite news|last=Shah|first=Murtaza Ali|title=Shujaat terms Nawaz Sharif's arrogance his weakness|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-110752-Shujaat-terms-Nawaz-Sharifs-arrogance-his-weakness|access-date=27 May 2012|newspaper=The News International newspaper|date=27 May 2012|page=1|quote=President of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday urged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif to get rid of his arrogant behaviour in his own interest|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527110419/http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-110752-Shujaat-terms-Nawaz-Sharifs-arrogance-his-weakness|archive-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Pakistan Muslim League (Q) official website">{{cite web|last=Press Release|title=President Pakistan Muslim League|url=http://www.pml.org.pk/president.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512170134/http://www.pml.org.pk/president.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 May 2011|work=Directorate-General for the Public Political Relations|publisher=Pakistan Muslim League (Q) official website|access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pmo.gov.pk/former_pms.php|title=FORMER PRIME MINISTERS|publisher=Prime Minster's Office, Government of Pakistan website|access-date=26 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143125/http://www.pmo.gov.pk/former_pms.php|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> since 2003.<ref name=":1"/>

Hailing from the business-industrialist Chaudhry family<ref name="Senate Secretariat">{{cite web|title=Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain|url=http://www.senate.gov.pk/ShowMemberDetail.asp?MemberCode=608|work=Senate Secretariat of Pakistan|access-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121221055638/http://www.senate.gov.pk/ShowMemberDetail.asp?MemberCode=608|archive-date=21 December 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> from the Punjab province of Pakistan, Hussain graduated from the FC College University and the Punjab University. After his graduation, Hussain subsequently joined the family business comprising large numbers of industries, textiles, agricultural farms, sugar and flour mills.<ref name="Senate Secretariat"/> He successfully contested in the non-partisan 1985 elections and was appointed as minister of industry in the government of Prime minister Muhammad Junejo, lasting until 1988.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)">{{cite web|title=Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain|date=8 October 2004 |url=http://storyofpakistan.com/chaudhry-shujaat-hussain/|publisher=Story of Pakistan (Part-II)|access-date=25 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803190145/http://storyofpakistan.com/chaudhry-shujaat-hussain/|archive-date=3 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hussain became a leader and influential conservative figure in the Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA) between 1988 and 1990 and joined the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) under Nawaz Sharif in 1993.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> Hussain served as the 26th Interior minister in the government of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif in two non-consecutive terms from 1990 to 1993 and 1997 to 1999.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/>

Originally a loyalist of Nawaz Sharif, Hussain defected to autocratic leader Pervez Musharraf after 1999 and became member of the new PML-Q.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Four crises and a peace process : American engagement in South Asia|last=R.|first=Chari, P.|date=2007|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|others=Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal, 1940-, Cohen, Stephen P., 1936-|isbn=9780815713845|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=614498145}}</ref>

His family remains influential in national politics and his cousin Pervez Illahi served as Chief Minister of Punjab 2007 Twice,from 2002 to 2007 during Musharraf's military rule and in 2022.

Following the 2008 elections and Musharraf's resignation, Hussain and his party became a major ally of Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and President Asif Ali Zardari from the Pakistan Peoples Party.<ref name="The Nation">{{cite news|last=NNI|title=Shujaat backs Fehmida's decision in PM case|url=https://www.nation.com.pk/27-May-2012/shujaat-backs-fehmida-s-decision-in-pm-case|access-date=27 May 2012|newspaper=The Nation|date=27 May 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527105346/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/27-May-2012/shujaat-backs-fehmida-s-decision-in-pm-case|archive-date=27 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Dawn News">{{cite news|last=News Agencies|title=Alliance with PPP to continue: Shujaat|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/706896/alliance-with-ppp-to-continue-says-shujaat|access-date=27 May 2012|newspaper=Dawn News|date=31 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504000551/http://dawn.com/2012/03/31/alliance-with-ppp-to-continue-says-shujaat/|archive-date=4 May 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was born on 27 January 1946 in the Gujrat District, Punjab, of former British Indian Empire. He was born in a Punjabi Jat family belonging to Warraich clan.<ref>{{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}}</ref> His ancestors hailed from rural Gujrat and had no initial political background.<ref name="Pakistan Election Commissioner"/><ref name="Pakistan Herald">{{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}}</ref> His father Zahoor Elahi was 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.<ref name="Pakistan Election Commissioner"/> 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.<ref name="Pakistan Election Commissioner"/><ref name="Pakistan Herald"/> 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.<ref name="Senate of Pakistan">{{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}}</ref> By this time, Hussain's family had become a potent industrial oligarchs and had significant influence on presidents Ayub Khan and General Yahya Khan.<ref name="Pakistan Election Commissioner"/><ref name="Pakistan Herald"/>

==Career in national politics== Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain entered in the national politics after the assassination of his father.<ref name="Isha Books Publications Co.">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Isha Books Publications Co."/> He participated and campaign successfully in non-partisan 1985 general elections and maintains ties with PML.<ref name="Isha Books Publications Co."/> His contest in the general election from Gujrat included for both seats for the National Assembly and provincial Punjab Assembly.<ref name="Isha Books Publications Co."/> After the elections he vacated his Punjab Assembly seat in favour of the National Assembly seat.<ref name="Isha Books Publications Co."/>

He became a crucial power broker in the Islamist regime Zia-ul-Haq.<ref name="Simone and Schuster Inc.">{{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}}</ref> Hussain benefited with general Zia's economic policies.<ref name="Simone and Schuster Inc."/> Hussain invested in industrial firms and mills. Bought Stocks at Karachi Stock Exchange, which benefited him.<ref name="Simone and Schuster Inc."/>

After participating in 1985 general elections, Hussain joined the government of Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo as the minister of the Ministry of Industry,<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> and held additional ministerial portfolio of Ministry of Information and Mass-media Broadcasting in 1986;<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> and Ministry of Defence Production in 1987–88.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/>

He was imprisoned during second tenure of Bhutto in 1994 in politically-motivated cases filed by Federal Investigation Agency DG Rehman Malik.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Interior ministry=== 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.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> He also acted as the parliamentary party leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) in the National Assembly.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/>

[[File:Armitage and Shujaat Hussein.jpg|frame|right|Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, then Pakistan's Prime Minister, sees off US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, 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 minister. He was one of high-profile cabinet members of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif who appointed Shujaat as the President of the PML-N in Punjab from 1997 to 1999.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> However, Hussain mounted serious disagreement and confronted Nawaz Sharif after Sharif imposed economic emergency in 1998.<ref name="Brookings Institution"/> 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".<ref name="Brookings Institution">{{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}}</ref>

===Pakistan Muslim League=== After the coup, Hussain did not join the Pakistan Muslim League, a splinter group of PML.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> 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.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/> 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.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-II)"/>

==Premiership (2004)== 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.<ref name="Business Standard news">{{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}}</ref> {{Blockquote|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 became Prime Minister because Aziz could not be elected Prime Minister, as he was a member of senate.<ref name="Business Standard news"/>

At the Parliament, Hussain told journalists that his election as Prime Minister was "not an interim appointment" but in keeping with the Constitution.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-I)"/> 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."<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part-I)"/>

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).<ref name="Story of Pakistan">{{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}}</ref>

===Election as Prime Minister=== The election for Prime Minister took place on 29 June 2004. {|class="wikitable" |+ !colspan=2|←2002 !29 June 2004 !August 2004→ |- !colspan=2|Candidate !Party !Votes Obtained<ref>{{cite news |title=Assembly elects Shujaat leader of house: To be sworn in as PM today |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/363022/assembly-elects-shujaat-leader-of-house-to-be-sworn-in-as-pm-today |access-date=12 April 2022 |publisher=Dawn News |date=30 June 2004}}</ref> |- !colspan=3|Required majority → !172 out of 342 |- |bgcolor="{{party color|Pakistan Muslim League (Q)}}"| |'''Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain''' |{{nowrap|Pakistan Muslim League (Q)}} |style="text-align:center;"|'''190''' {{tick|15}} |- |bgcolor="{{party color|Pakistan Peoples Party}}"| |Ameen Faheem |{{nowrap|Pakistan Peoples Party}} |style="text-align:center;"|76 {{cross|15}} |-class=sortbottom style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold" | |colspan=2|Abstentions |style="text-align:center;"|<76 |}

==Personal life== Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is the eldest son of Chaudhry Zahoor Ilahi.<ref name="BBC Pakistan">{{cite news|last=Adil|first=Adnan|title=Profile: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain|url=https://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=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 Javaid Akhtar Chattha, paternal cousin of former speaker National Assembly of Pakistan Hamid Nasir Chattha.

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

His Brother is Also Founder of Wajahat Force of PML-Q.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://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}}</ref> A group of a few hundred people who held political and gun power in the districts of Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Sargodha and Hafizabad. After the 2018 and 2024 elections, Wajahat Hussain's two sons also became members of the national and provincial assemblies.

===Honors from South Korea=== Hussain had been a strong and vocal supporter of Pakistan's bilateral relations with South Korea.<ref name="Pakistan Tribune, 21 Sep">{{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}}</ref> He helped in bringing South Korea investment in the country and supports South-Korean model of economy in the country.<ref name="Pakistan Tribune, 21 Sep"/> For his efforts, the South Korean government named him "Honorary Consul General" of Republic of Korea.<ref name="Pakistan Tribune, 21 Sep"/> 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.<ref name="Pakistan Tribune, 21 Sep"/>

===Wealth and personal assets===

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is one of the powerful business personalities in Pakistan.<ref name="Pakistan Today">{{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}}</ref> Hussain is investor in defence production, military technological development, and industrial mills.<ref name="Express Tribune">{{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}}</ref> On the one hand, the wealth inherited from his father and on the other hand, due to his 11 consecutive years in government from 1997 to 2008, Chaudhry made immense wealth in real estate and sugar mills. According to an estimate, in 2008, his wealth spread across Europe was estimated to be around 2.5 billion USD.<ref name="Daily Times, Saturday, 12 March 2011">{{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}}</ref>

== Books ==

=== By him ===

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

=== About him ===

* ''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.

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== * Some facts of Ch Shujaat hussain {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090505000130/http://www.attocknews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=368&Itemid=168 None]}} * [http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P086 Story Of Pakistan Profile] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511181106/http://www.pml.org.pk/ Official Website of Pakistan Muslim League]

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