Khawaja Saad Rafique | |
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خواجہ سعدرفیق | |
Minister for Railway | |
In office 19 April 2022 – 10 August 2023 | |
President | Arif Alvi |
Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
Preceded by | Azam Khan Swati |
In office 4 August 2017 – 31 May 2018 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi |
Preceded by | (himself) |
Succeeded by | Roshan Khursheed Bharucha |
In office 7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Preceded by | Ghulam Ahmad Bilour |
Succeeded by | (himself) |
Federal Minister for Culture | |
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 | |
President | Pervez Musharraf |
Prime Minister | Yousaf Raza Gillani |
Federal Minister for Youth Affairs | |
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 | |
President | Pervez Musharraf |
Prime Minister | Yousaf Raza Gillani |
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Youth Affairs | |
In office 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
President | Farooq Leghari Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 14 October 2018 – 10 August 2023 | |
Constituency | NA-131 Lahore |
In office 11 May 2013 – 2018 | |
Constituency | NA-125 Lahore |
In office 18 February 2008 – 2013 | |
Constituency | NA-125 Lahore |
In office 10 October 2002 – 2007 | |
Constituency | NA-119 Lahore |
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab | |
In office 15 August 2018 – 14 October 2018 | |
Speaker | Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi |
Constituency | PP-168 Lahore |
In office 18 February 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
Speaker | Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi |
Constituency | PP-119 Lahore |
Personal details | |
Born | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan | 4 November 1962
Spouse(s) | Ghazala Saad Rafique Shafaq Hira (m. 2017) |
Relations | Khawaja Salman Rafique (brother) |
Parent | Begum Farhat Rafique (mother) |
Alma mater | Punjab University (BA and MA) |
Khawaja Saad Rafique (Urdu: خواجہ سعد رفیق; born 4 November 1962) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from October 2018 till August 2023 and the federal minister for Railways.
A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Rafique previously served as the Minister for Railways in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018 and in the Sharif's third ministry from 2013 to 2017 and held the cabinet portfolio of Minister for Culture and the Minister for Youth Affairs briefly during the Gillani ministry in 2008.
Rafique had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to May 2018 and served as Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Youth Affairs from 1997 to 1999 under Sharif's second ministry.