Khawaja Asif: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| president2 = [[Mamnoon Hussain]]

| primeminister2 = [[Nawaz Sharif]]

| predecessor2 = [[NaveedNawaz QamarSharif]]

| successor2 = [[Khurram Dastgir Khan]]

| office3 = 33rd [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]

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| term_start15 = 1991

| term_end15 = 1994

| appointer = [[Shehbaz Sharif]]

| appointer1 = [[Shehbaz Sharif]]

| appointer3 = [[Raheel Sharif]]

| appointer4 = [[Qamar Javed Bajwa]]

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'''Khawaja Muhammad Asif also known as vote thief''' ({{Lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|خواجہ محمد آصف}}}}; born 9 August 1949) is a [[Pakistani]] politician who serves as the [[Defence Minister of Pakistan]] from 19 April 2022. Previously having this post from April 2022 to August 2023 in [[Shehbaz Sharif]]'s Government. Previously, he had also been a member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2018 and till date. Since May 2019 he is nominated by PMLN to act as the Parliamentary Leader in National Assembly, he acted in this role till the dissolution of the assembly in 2023 and again took the charge after elections on 2 March 2024.

He served as the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)|Minister for Foreign Affairs]] in the [[Abbasi cabinet]] from August 2017 to April 2018 and simultaneously served as the [[Defence Minister of Pakistan|Minister for Defence]] and [[Ministry of Water and Power (Pakistan)|Minister for Water and Power]] in the [[third Sharif ministry]] from 2013 to 2017.