Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi (died 25 September 1981) was a politician from Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan. Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi founded a political family of Pakistan.
He began his career in the late 1930s as a police constable of the Punjab, although he was later dismissed for corruption. He eventually started his business in joint cooperation with His Brother Ch. Manzoor Elahi, who was a textile engineer. They jointly purchased and operated a textile mill after independence of Pakistan. He settled in Gujrat. He was a Jat of the Warriach clan. He entered local politics in the 1950s. During Ayub Khan's time, Zahoor Elahi aspired to be governor of West Pakistan, Nawab of Kalabagh Amir Mohammad Khan, the incumbent governor, jokingly told his friends that if Elahi were not careful, he would put him in his proper place and reinstate him a constable. As secretary-general to the Convention Muslim League, he came to oppose Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. In his conflict with Bhutto, he was imprisoned, and family property was taken by the Government, he was assassinated in 1981.
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