Aseff Ahmad Daula

Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali Daula (21 October 1940 – 19 May 2022)[1] was a Pakistani politician who served as the 18th Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1993 to 1996.

On 25 December 2011, he joined PTI but resigned when party awarded Khurshid Kasuri National Assembly ticket instead of him.

[citation needed] While serving as the Economic Affairs Minister, Sardar Aseff led numerous delegations of Pakistani civil society members and organisations to Russia and cultivated business and diplomatic relationships with various disintegrated states of the former Soviet Union.

[citation needed] As Foreign Minister of Pakistan, he was unanimously elected chairman of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

In the recently held general elections, he was returned to the National Assembly for the fifth time after defeating his archrival, the outgoing foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri.

His uncle Sardar Muhammad Hussain remained a member of parliament pre and post partition and pioneered the advent of Pakistan Muslim League in central Punjab region.