Ahad Cheema
Ahad Cheema | |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Economic Affairs (Pakistan) | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2024 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Member of Senate of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 4 April 2024 | |
| Advisor to PM in Establishment Division | |
| In office 10 August 2023 – 26 December 2023 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister | Anwaar ul Haq Kakar |
| Army Chief | Qamar Javed Bajwa Asim Munir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hafizabad, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Political party | PMLN (2022-present) |
Ahad Khan Cheema is a retired Pakistani bureaucrat who is the current Federal Minister of Economic Affairs, appointed on 11 March 2024. Previously, he has served as a chief executive officer (CEO) of the Quaid-e-Azam Thermal Power Company and director-general of the Lahore Development Authority. In 2018, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Cheema on charges related to irregularities in the Ashiana Housing Scheme project during his time as chairman of the LDA. The investigation also involved former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad and Shehbaz Sharif. Cheema was released on bail in 2021 after spending three years in jail and was acquitted of all charges by the NAB in 2023. He took retirement from civil service in January 2023.