Hamid Nasir Chattha

Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha is a politician from Wazirabad, Punjab, Pakistan. He was born on 15 November 1944, in Lahore. Hamid Nasir Chattha was elected as a Member of Punjab Assembly, after losing in 2008 National Assembly elections to Justice (Retd.) Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema. He was previously elected as an MNA in 1985, 1990, 1993, and 2002 from his constituency of Gujranwala.

Early life and family Hamid Nasir Chatha is the son of Ch. Salah-ud-Din Chatha. He has two sons, Fayyaz Chatha and Ahmad Chatha.

Education and career Hamid Nasir Chattha attended Aitchison College, Lahore. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Government College Lahore in 1966. He was not able to complete his Bar-at-Law exam from Lincoln's Inn, because of his father's death.

Later career Between 1981 and 1985 Hamid Nasir Chattha served as Provincial Minister of Punjab holding the portfolio of Health and Education. Hamid Nasir won one of the biggest majorities in the Punjab in the 1985 party-less elections. He then went on to serve as Speaker of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988.

As a federal minister, he held the portfolio of Information and Broadcasting and Science and Technology during 1985–1986 and later the portfolio of Planning during 1990–1993. He was the chairman of the special committee of Kashmir with the status of federal minister.

He broke with the PML and IJI coalition led by Nawaz Sharif on 17 April 1993, a day before the government was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan. He went on to join the PML-J, originally founded by the late Mohammed Khan Junejo. His party has had two chief ministers of the Punjab and one foreign minister when his party was a coalition partner with PPP-P.

Chattha retired from active politics in 2013. After a successful career in politics, he decided to step away from the political arena.