Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry

Fawad Hussain Chaudhry is a lawyer, politician, journalist and anchor by profession. He belongs to a politically famous and strong family of politicians. His forefathers have played important roles in the before and after partition politics of Pakistan.

Born on April 7, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain opened his eyes to strong political and educated family. He is from Jehlum Punjab. Studied at Government College Lahore then went abroad for higher studies and return Pakistan with a degree of Barrister.

The Chaudhry Altaf family, as it is now known, belongs to the Jatt clan and has historically been part of Jhelum district’s politics. Khan Bahadur Chaudhry Ferozuddin was the maternal grandfather of Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf, twice the district Nazim of Jhelum and the son of former Punjab governor Chaudhry Altaf Hussain. Chaudhry Altaf Hussain was elected a member of the West Pakistan Assembly in 1956 but could not win in the 1970 general elections for the National Assembly.

He was nominated to the Ziaul Haq Majlis-i-Shura in 1981. He lost the election in 1985 (as an independent) and in 1988 as a Pakistan Peoples Party nominee against Raja Mohammad Afzal, another stalwart of Jhelum. Chaudhry Altaf won as a PPP nominee in 1990 by defeating Raja Afzal of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad.