Asif Ahmad Ali

Asif Ahmad Ali

18th Foreign Minister of Pakistan
In office 16 November 1993 – 4 November 1996
Preceded by	Farooq Leghari
Succeeded by	Sahabzada Yaqub Khan

Personal details
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Government College University, Lahore St John's College, Cambridge

Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali is a Pakistani politician who served as the 18th Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1993 to 1996. He was a senior member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Peoples Party. On 25 December 2011, he joined PTI but resigned when party awarded Khurshid Kasuri National Assembly ticket instead of him. He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Kasur in 1994 and again in 2008 by an impressive margin of ten thousand votes. He has also served as the Minister for Education (Pakistan) and Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication between 2008 and 2010.

He studied at Lawrence College in Ghora Gali. He earned a B.A. (Hons.) degree from Government College University, Lahore (1959–62), and a B.A (Hons.) degree from St John's College, Oxford (1963–1966). Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali was a senior member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. He was the foreign minister of Pakistan in the cabinet of Benazir Bhutto during her second tenure as Prime Minister. Recently he resighned from Pakistan Peoples Party and Join Party of Imran Khan former crickter Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He opposed Pervez Musharraf's firing of Pakistan's judiciary. He was a close associate of Benazir Bhutto and was the head of foreign policy of Pakistan Peoples Party during the 90's.