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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hamid Nasir Chattha حامد ناصر چٹھہ
| office3 = [[Ministry of Planning and Development (Pakistan)|Minister of Planning & Development]]
| deputy =
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 = [[Syed Babar Ali]] (caretaker)
| office1 = 12th [[Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan|Speaker of the National Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 31 May 1986
| term_end1 = 3 December 1988
| office2 = [[Ministry of Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage (Pakistan)|Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting]]
| term_start2 = 10 April 1985
| term_end2 = 28 January 1986
| office4 = Provincial Minister of Punjab for Health & Education
| term_start4 = 1981
| term_end4 = 1985
| party = [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]] (2016–present)
| otherparty = [[Muslim League (Pakistan)|Muslim League]] (Before 1962) [[Pakistan Muslim League]] (1962–1988) [[Pakistan Muslim League (J)]] (1988–2006) [[Pakistan Muslim League (Q)]] (2006–2009)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|11|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British Raj]] (now [[Pakistan]])
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = [[Government College University, Lahore]] [[Inns of Court School of Law]]
| term_start3 = 9 November 1990
| term_end3 = 18 April 1993
| predecessor1 = [[Fakhar Imam]]
| successor1 = [[Malik Meraj Khalid]]
| primeminister2 = [[Muhammad Khan Junejo]]
| deputy1 = Wazir Ahmed Jogezai
| successor2 = [[Shujaat Hussain]]
| predecessor2 = Martial Law ([[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]])
}}
'''Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha''' ({{lang-ur|حامد ناصر چٹھہ}}) is a [[politician]] from [[Wazirabad]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]. He was born on November 15, 1944 in [[Lahore]]. Hamid Nasir Chattha is currently a Member of Punjab Assembly,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?103032|title=Pak determined for Kashmiris right of self-determination: Chattha|date=26 April 2005|work=[[PakTribune]]|accessdate=18 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pakistanherald.com/Profile/Hamid-Nasir-Chattha-384|title=Hamid Nasir Chattha|publisher=[[Pakistan Herald Publications|Pakistan Herald]]|accessdate=18 February 2011}}</ref> [[Pakistan]] after losing in [[2008 Pakistani general election|2008 National Assembly elections]]. He was previously elected as an MNA in 1985, 1990, 1993, and 2002 from his constituency of [[Gujranwala]]. Married, he is the father of two sons and two daughters.

==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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/151945/all-jatt-contest-in-wazirabad |title=All-Jatt contest in Wazirabad |work=Dawn |location=Pakistan |date=12 August 2005 |accessdate=14 August 2014}}</ref>

==Education and career==
Hamid Nasir Chattha attended Aitchison College in Lahore. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from [[Government College Lahore]] in 1966 followed by Bar-at-Law from [[Lincoln's Inn]], [[London]]. He was not able to complete his [[Bar at Law]] exam because of his father's death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.com.pk/candidatedetails.php?id=652|title=PML J - Hamid Nasir Chatta's Profile|website=elections.com.pk|access-date=2014-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220103948/http://elections.com.pk/candidatedetails.php?id=652|archive-date=2014-12-20|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Later career===
Between 1981–1985 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 of Pakistan|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 [[Pakistan Muslim League|PML]] and [[Islami Jamhoori Ittehad|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.

He joined [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf|PTI]] in 2016 and is considered a leftist leader within the PTI.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nation.com.pk/09-Feb-2016/hamid-nasir-chattha-to-join-pti|title=Hamid Nasir Chattha to join PTI|date=9 February 2016|access-date=14 September 2021|work=The Nation (newspaper)}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Politics of Pakistan]]
* [[Manzoor Wattoo]]

==References==
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