Aseff Ahmad Ali - Foreign Minister of Pakistan

Foreign Minister of Pakistan

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

In 2003, he held a painting exhibition at Lahore, where he displayed some of his hand-drawn sketches and paintings, which was attended by then-Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

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.

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