[1] Asif was preselected by the Queensland Labor Party as its candidate for Sandgate at the 2024 Queensland state election to succeed the retiring incumbent Stirling Hinchliffe.
[2] She was selected amid the requirement that two male Labor MPs would have to retire at the next election to make way for women in order to meet the party's gender quota affirmative action rules.
[3][4] Prior to her election to parliament, she served as the president of Young Labor and as an advisor to Anika Wells.
She was born in Lahore, Pakistan and speaks Punjabi, English, Hindi and Urdu.
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