Parvez Elahi

Chaudhry Parvez Elahi
President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 March 2023
Chairman	Imran Khan Gohar Ali Khan
Preceded by	Javed Hashmi
2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 25 June 2012 – 29 June 2013
President	Asif Zardari
Prime Minister	Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
Preceded by	Nisar Ali Khan (as Senior Minister)
Succeeded by	Ishaq Dar
20th Federal Minister for Industries
In office 3 May 2011 – 30 November 2013
President	Asif Ali Zardari Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Nawaz Sharif
Federal Minister for Defence Production
In office May 2011 – June 2012
7th Leader of the Opposition
In office 10 April 2008 – 16 September 2008
President	Pervez Musharraf Muhammad Mian Soomro Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Fazal-ur-Rehman
Succeeded by	Nisar Ali Khan
Acting Governor of Punjab
In office 18 August 2018 – 5 September 2018
Preceded by	Rafique Rajwana
Succeeded by	Mohammad Sarwar
14th & 18th Chief Minister of Punjab
In office 27 July 2022 – 22 January 2023
Governor	Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman
Preceded by	Hamza Shahbaz
Succeeded by	Mohsin Raza Naqvi (caretaker)
In office 29 November 2002 – 18 November 2007
Governor	Khalid Maqbool
Preceded by	Shehbaz Sharif
Succeeded by	Ejaz Nisar (acting)
17th & 20th Speaker of Punjab Assembly
In office 19 February 1997 – 12 October 1999
Preceded by	Hanif Ramay
Succeeded by	Muhammad Afzal Sahi
In office 16 August 2018 – 26 July 2022
Preceded by	Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan
Succeeded by	Muhammad Sibtain Khan
Acting Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly
In office 20 October 1993 – 16 November 1996
Leader	Shehbaz Sharif
Minister for Local Bodies and Rural Development of Punjab
In office 9 April 1985 – 25 April 1993
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office 1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
Constituency	NA-105 (Gujrat-II)
In office 17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013
Constituency	NA-58 (Attock-II)
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office 15 August 2018 – 14 January 2023
Constituency	PP-30 (Gujrat-III)
In office 25 November 2002 – 17 November 2007
Constituency	PP-292 (Rahimyar Khan-VIII)
Personal details
Born	(1945-11-01) 1 November 1945 (age 78)[1] Gujrat, Punjab, British India
Nationality	Pakistani
Political party	PTI (2023–present)
Other political affiliations	PML-Q (2002–2023) PMLN (1993–1999) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1985–1993)
Children	2, including Moonis Elahi
Relatives	See Chaudhry family
Education	Forman Christian College West Herts College
Website	parvezelahi.com

Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Warraich commonly referred to as Pervaiz Elahi (Urdu, Punjabi: چوہدری پرویز الٰہی وڑائچ; born 1 November 1945) is a Pakistani politician who is the former Chief Minister of Punjab. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023, when he, as chief minister, dissolved the assembly. In 2023, he left the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML(Q)) and joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) along with his son, Moonis Elahi, and 10 other former PML(Q) MPAs over political rifts with the party president and cousin, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. He was appointed president of the PTI. He was the former president of the Punjab Division of the PML(Q).^[2]

He served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2013. After a successful campaign in the 2002 general elections, he became the Chief Minister of Punjab and held this position until 2007. In 2008, he briefly served as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan. He remained a member of the National Assembly for two terms, from 2008 to May 2018. He has also been the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from 2018 to 2022. In a major development in late February 2023, Parvez Elahi announced joining Imran Khan-led party along with 10 of his party's former MPAs. On 7 March 2023, Parvez Elahi was appointed as President of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.^[3]