Khawaja Asif
Khawaja Asif | |
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خواجہ آصف | |
Asif in 2015 | |
| Minister of Defence | |
| 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 |
| 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 of 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 of Water Resources) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (as Minister of Energy) |
| Minister of 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 of Sports | |
| In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 | |
| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Senior Vice-President of PML(N) | |
| Assumed office 4 May 2019 | |
| Deputy | Abid Sher Ali |
| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Member of National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 29 February 2024 | |
| Constituency | NA-71 Sialkot-II |
| Majority | 18,454 (7.52%) |
| In office 13 August 2018 – 10 August 2023 | |
| Constituency | NA-73 Sialkot-II |
| Majority | 1,406 (0.57%) |
| In office 18 November 2002 – 26 April 2018 | |
| Constituency | NA-110 Sialkot-I |
| Majority | 3,786 (3.72%) |
| In office 15 October 1993 – 12 October 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Mian Muhammad Shafi |
| Constituency | NA-85 Sialkot-I |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 August 1949 |
| Party | PML(N) (1993–present) |
| Spouse | Musarrat Asif Khawaja |
| Relations | Farooq Naek (cousin) |
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| Alma mater | University of the Punjab |
| Awards | Nishan-e-Imtiaz |
Khawaja Muhammad Asif (born 9 August 1949) is a Pakistani politician who has served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan since 2022, having previously served in the post from 2013 to 2017. He has been a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from Sialkot since 1993, elected for the seventh time in 2024. He is among the senior-most members of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) from Punjab.
He also has an 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.