Moonis Elahi was born in Lahore in April 1976. His political ancestry stems from both his maternal (grand-father Chaudhry Zahur Elahi and uncle Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain) and paternal side (father Chaudhry Parvez Elahi). After graduating from the Wharton School of Business in 1999,he returned to Pakistan to begin his career in his family business.

However it wasn’t too long until the political genes kicked in, beckoning towards a shift in responsibilities. At present, Moonis’s day-to-day roles are divided between managing his family’s business of diversified industrial units and working actively on political and development projects in Lahore and other parts of Pakistan.