Asif Ali Malik

Asif Ali Malik is Former Vice Chairman of Punjab Bar Council. He was Chairman for the Term (2009-10).
Early life
Born on June 8, 1948 at Dhulian, Asif Ali Malik is permanently settled in his hometown located in southwest of Islamabad in the oil-rich Pindigheb tehsil of Attock district.
Education
After getting his early education at Public School, Abbottabad, he was admitted to the Government College, Lahore, from where he got BA degree before earning an LLB degree from the University Law College, Lahore.
Asif Ali Malik, who remained involved in the sports like cricket and hockey in early days of his life, wanted to become a lawyer and he achieved this goal. He is inspired by the leadership of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the twice-elected prime minister of Pakistan. Besides politics, he is also involved in the agriculture.
Political career
As a lawyer, he was first elected as member of the Punjab Bar Council in 1993 and still holds that membership. He started political activities in 1979 from the local level and was elected as member of the local union council in 1988 before being elected to the Attock District Council in 1991.
Asif Ali Malik emerged on the horizon of national politics by joining the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and contested election for a Punjab Assembly seat on its ticket from PP-15 (now PP-18) in 1993 but could not succeed.
Now the additional secretary general of PML-N Punjab, Asif Ali Malik was elected to the Punjab Assembly from PP-15 on PML-N ticket in 1997 general elections and served as parliamentary secretary.
As a candidate of the PML-N for January 8 election from NA-59 Attock-III and PP-18, Asif Ali Malik’s future plans include robust progress and development of his constituency.
Club cricket and walk are his favourite pastimes while he likes to read books on literature and current affairs and likes poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Habib Jalib and Sahir Ludhianvi.
Asif Ali Malik is married to the sister of PML-N stalwart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. He has two sons and two daughters. One of his sons has joined the military while other has earned LLM degree and is currently engaged in legal practice. He is attached with the chamber of celebrated lawyer Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan.

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