Khawaja Asif
Khawaja Asif | |
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خواجہ آصف | |
Asif in 2017 | |
| Defence Minister of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 19 April 2022 | |
| President | |
| Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Pervez Khattak |
| Succeeded by | Anwar Ali Hyder (caretaker) |
| In office 27 November 2013 – 28 July 2017 | |
| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Naveed Qamar |
| Succeeded by | Khurram Dastgir Khan |
| 33rd Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 4 August 2017 – 26 April 2018 | |
| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi |
| Preceded by | Sartaj Aziz (as Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Khurram Dastgir Khan |
| Minister for Water and Power | |
| In office 7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017 | |
| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Deputy | Abid Sher Ali |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Mukhtar |
| Succeeded by | Syed Javed Ali Shah (as minister for Water Resources) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (as minister for Energy) |
| Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources | |
| In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 | |
| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Succeeded by | Asim Hussain |
| Minister for Sports | |
| In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 | |
| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Member of National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| In office 19 October 1993 – 31 May 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Mian Muhammad Shadi |
| Constituency | NA-71 Sialkot-II |
| Majority | 23,222 (22.%78) |
| Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
| In office 15 November 1991 – 16 October 1993 | |
| Constituency | General Seat from Punjab |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 August 1949 Sialkot, West Punjab, Pakistan |
| Political party | PMLN (1993–present) |
| Spouse | Musarrat Asif Khawaja |
| Relations | Farooq Naek (cousin) |
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| Alma mater | University of the Punjab |
Khawaja Muhammad Asif (born 9 August 1949) is a Pakistani politician who has served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan since 2022. Asif previously served as Defence Minister from 2013 to 2017 until the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and served as Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from since 1993, elected in every election.
He also have additional portfolio of Minister of Aviation since 11 March 2024, and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to April 2018 and simultaneously served as the Minister for Defence and Minister for Water and Power under Nawaz Sharif's third term from 2013 to 2017. Asif began his political career after getting elected to the Senate of Pakistan during the Nawaz Sharif's first term in 1991. Since 1997, he had served as a member of the federal cabinet, in various positions. From 1997 to 1999, he was as the chairman of the Privatization Commission of Pakistan during the second government of Nawaz Sharif. He briefly held the cabinet portfolios of the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources in the Gillani ministry in 2008, with an additional charge as Minister for Sports.
He is a Member of National Assembly of Pakistan and in 1993 was elected in from Sialkot.