Former defence minister Khawaja Asif was nominated on Saturday as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) parliamentary leader in the National Assembly.
Islamabad: Khawaja Asif nominated as PML-N’s parliamentary leader in NA. In this regard, the PML-N had penned a letter to the NA speaker.
On the other side, the party issued a show-cause notice to PML-N leader Nelson Azeem for not voting for the elections of speaker and deputy speaker.
PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal had sought clarification from Nelson on this matter within seven days.
– Charter of economy –
Separately on Friday, PML-N leader Atta Tarar said that his party had already emphasised the need for a charter of the economy.
Expressing his thoughts, Tarar took a jibe at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), saying, “You [PTI] want to derail the democracy in the country.”
Tarar questioned: “Under which capacity had the letter been penned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?”
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Khawaja Muhammad Asif is a Pakistani politician who served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan from April 2022 till August 2023. 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. In May, 2019 he took the charge and became the Parliamentary Leader of PML-N in the National Assembly of Pakistan.
He served as 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 in the third Sharif ministry from 2013 to 2017.
Asif began his political career after getting elected to the Senate of Pakistan during the Sharif’s first ministry 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 was elected in 2024 from Sialkot.
