Khawaja Saad Rafique

Khawaja Saad Rafique
خواجہ سعدرفیق
Minister for Railway
In office
19 April 2022 – 10 August 2023
PresidentArif Alvi
Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif
Preceded byAzam Khan Swati
In office
4 August 2017 – 31 May 2018
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterShahid Khaqan Abbasi
Preceded by(himself)
Succeeded byRoshan Khursheed Bharucha
In office
7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Preceded byGhulam Ahmad Bilour
Succeeded by(himself)
Federal Minister for Culture
In office
31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
PresidentPervez Musharraf
Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gillani
Federal Minister for Youth Affairs
In office
31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
PresidentPervez Musharraf
Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gillani
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Youth Affairs
In office
1997 – 12 October 1999
PresidentFarooq Leghari
Wasim Sajjad
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
14 October 2018 – 10 August 2023
ConstituencyNA-131 Lahore
In office
11 May 2013 – 2018
ConstituencyNA-125 Lahore
In office
18 February 2008 – 2013
ConstituencyNA-125 Lahore
In office
10 October 2002 – 2007
ConstituencyNA-119 Lahore
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office
15 August 2018 – 14 October 2018
SpeakerChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
ConstituencyPP-168 Lahore
In office
18 February 1997 – 12 October 1999
SpeakerChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
ConstituencyPP-119 Lahore
Personal details
Born (1962-11-04) 4 November 1962 (age 61)
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political partyPakistan Muslim League (N) (1980-present)
Spouse(s)Ghazala Saad Rafique
Shafaq Hira
(m. 2017)
RelationsKhawaja Salman Rafique (brother)
ParentBegum Farhat Rafique (mother)
Alma materPunjab 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.


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