Khawaja Muhammad Asif Politician

Khawaja Muhammad Asif (خواجہ محمد آصف; born 9 August 1949 in Sialkot), is a Pakistani politician, banker, senior conservative thinker, and the current Defence minister as well as Power and Water minister, serving in this capacity since June 2013.A senior parliamentarian from the Pakistan Muslim League, his electoral career started in 1991 from the NA-110 of Sialkot, Punjab. He is noted for initiating the privatisation of banking sector as well as his tough rhetoric against Pervez Musharraf. In addition, he also short-tenured in th e Petroleum ministry in the Gillani cabinet. Differences seemed to develop between Khwaja Asif and Nawaz Sharif when he offered to resign alleging that he did not have control over his own ministry.