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Shahzad Elahi

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Shahzad Elahi
Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
Personal details
Born(1965-09-01)1 September 1965
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political partyPakistan Muslim League (Q)

Shahzad Elahi (Urdu: شہزاد الہی; born 1 September 1965) is a Pakistani politician[1][2][3][4] from the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) political party who served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (MPA) from 2002 to 2007 and is an elected member the second time, since 2008 on a non-Muslim minority seat. During his tenure in the provincial assembly, he has functioned as the chairman of the Standing Committee on Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering and is a member of the Finance Committee of the assembly.

A Christian by faith, Elahi resides in Lahore and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology.[5] In January 2012, Elahi said during an assembly speech that Punjab was becoming a "living hell" for minorities, pointing out recent incidents of Christian churches being demolished in the province.[6]

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