Aitzaz Ahsan

Aitzaz Ahsan
Leader of the Opposition in Senate of Pakistan
In office 21 March 2015 – 21 March 2018
Succeeded by	Sherry Rehman
In office 20 March 1997 – 12 October 1999
Leader of the House of Federation
In office 12 March 2012 – 12 March 2015
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Nawaz Sharif
Succeeded by	Raja Zafar-ul-Haq
In office 21 March 1993 – 20 March 1997
Prime Minister	Benazir Bhutto
26th Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control
In office 4 December 1988 – 6 August 1990
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister	Benazir Bhutto
Preceded by	Malik Nasim Ahmad
Succeeded by	Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
In office 4 December 1988 – 6 August 1990
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister	Benazir Bhutto
Federal Minister for Education
In office 1988–1990
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister	Benazir Bhutto
Minister for Law and Justice
In office 4 December 1988 – 28 December 1988
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister	Benazir Bhutto
Preceded by	Rana Sanaullah
Succeeded by	Ashtar Ausaf Ali
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information and Culture
In office 1975–1977
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Planning and Development
In office 1975–1977
Member of the Senate of Pakistan (Senator)
In office 2012–2018
In office 1993–1999
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office 18 November 2002 – 18 November 2007
Constituency	NA-124 Lahore-VII
In office 1990–1993
Constituency	Lahore
In office 2 December 1988 – 3 November 1990
Constituency	Lahore
Member of Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office 1975–1977
Constituency	PP-28 Gujrat
Personal details
Born	(1945-09-27) 27 September 1945 (age 78) Murree, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party	PPP (1970-present)
Education	Aitchison College
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge (LLM)

Chaudhary Aitzaz Ahsan (Punjabi, Urdu: چودھری اعتزاز احسن; born 27 September 1945) is a Pakistani politician and lawyer. He served two times as the Leader of the House in the Senate of Pakistan from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2012 to 2015. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He was elected a member of the Senate of Pakistan from Punjab in 1994. His tenure ended in March 2018.^[1]

Born in Murree, Ahsan studied law at the Government College, Lahore and received a LLM from the Downing College, Cambridge. Ahsan became the Planning and Development Minister for Punjab in 1975. After the Operation Fair Play coup, Ahsan became a prominent figure of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Ahsan was elected to the National Assembly from Lahore in 1988 and served as the interior minister of Pakistan under Benazir Bhutto's first government and served until 1990.

Ahsan was elected as a member of the Senate in 1994. He re-joined the cabinet after Benazir's re-election, and went on to serve as the Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights until 1997. He served as the minority leader in the Senate between 1996 and 1999. Ahsan was elected to the National Assembly again in 2002, and went on to serve as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association between 2007 and 2008. Ahsan was elected to the Senate in 2012 and in 2015 became the minority leader.