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Minister of Defence (Pakistan)
List of Defence Ministers of Pakistan
Summary
List of Defence Ministers of Pakistan
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| post | Minister of Defence |
| image | Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg |
| imagesize | 230px |
| incumbent | Khawaja Asif |
| insignia | State emblem of Pakistan.svg |
| nominator | Prime minister of Pakistan |
| appointer | President of Pakistan |
| incumbentsince | 11 March 2024 |
| seat | Calcutta House, Murree Road |
| reports_to | *Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| member_of | Cabinet |
| department | Ministry of Defence |
| first | Liaquat Ali Khan |
| website |
Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. 46000
- Parliament of Pakistan
The Minister of Defence (Urdu: 'وزیرِ دفاع') heads the Ministry of Defence. The minister serves in the cabinet of the Prime Minister and is required to be a member of Parliament.
In the history of the country, the defence portfolio has usually been headed by the head of the government, be that the President or Prime Minister of the country. The first defence minister was Liaquat Ali Khan.
List of ministers
;Legend
- Caretaker minister
- Died in office
| Portrait | Name | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (BornDied) | Tenure | Party | Government | Head of Government | From | To | Length | Federal Minister of Defence | Federal Minister | Minister of State | Federal Minister of Defence | Caretaker ministry served during this interval | |||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Liaquat Ali Khan 1945.jpg | 70px]] | Liaquat Ali Khan | ||||||||||||
| (19471951) | |||||||||||||||
| MCA for East Bengal | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 15 August | ||||||||||||||
| 1947 | 16 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1951 | **** | Muslim League | Liaquat | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | Self | ||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Khawaja Nazimuddin of Pakistan.JPG | 70px]] | Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin | ||||||||||||
| (18941964) | |||||||||||||||
| MCA for East Bengal | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 24 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1951 | 17 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1953 | **** | Nazimuddin | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | Self | |||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Mohammad Ali Bogra portrait (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Mohammad Ali Bogra | ||||||||||||
| (1909–1963) | |||||||||||||||
| MCA for East Bengal | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 18 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1953 | 24 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1954 | **** | Bogra | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | Mohammad Ali Bogra | |||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Muhammed Ayub Khan.JPG | 70px]] | General | ||||||||||||
| Muhammad Ayub Khan | |||||||||||||||
| (19071974) | |||||||||||||||
| Commander-in-Chief of the Army | 24 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1954 | 11 August | ||||||||||||||
| 1955 | **** | ||||||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Mohamad Ali, primeiro-ministro do Paquistão, sem data.tif | 70px]] | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali | ||||||||||||
| (19051982) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for Punjab | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 12 August | ||||||||||||||
| 1955 | 12 September | ||||||||||||||
| 1956 | **** | Muhammad Ali | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | Self | |||||||||||
| Awami League}}" | [[File:H S Suhrawardy PM.jpg | 70px]] | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy | ||||||||||||
| (18921963) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for East Bengal | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 13 September | ||||||||||||||
| 1956 | 18 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1957 | **** | Awami League | Suhrawardy | Awami League}}" | Self | ||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Mumtaz Daultana.jpg | 70px]] | Mumtaz Daultana | ||||||||||||
| (19161965) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for Punjab | 19 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1957 | 18 December | ||||||||||||||
| 1957 | **** | Muslim League | Chundrigar | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | I. I. Chundrigar | ||||||||||
| 19 December | |||||||||||||||
| 1957 | 8 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | **** | Republican Party | Noon | Republican Party (Pakistan)}}" | Sir Feroz Khan Noon | ||||||||||
| Republican Party (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Feroz Khan Noon.jpg | 70px]] | Sir Feroz Khan Noon | ||||||||||||
| (1893–1970) | |||||||||||||||
| MCA for Punjab | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | |||||||||||||||
| Republican Party (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Nawab Akbar Bugti, (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Akbar Bugti | ||||||||||||
| (19262006) | |||||||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Muhammad Ayub Khuhro.jpg | 70px]] | Muhammad Ayub Khuhro | ||||||||||||
| (19011980) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for Sindh | 9 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | 7 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | **** | Muslim League | Noon | Republican Party (Pakistan)}}" | Sir Feroz Khan Noon | ||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:Muhammed Ayub Khan.JPG | 70px]] | Field Marshal | ||||||||||||
| Muhammad Ayub Khan | |||||||||||||||
| (19071974) | |||||||||||||||
| (President) | 28 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | 21 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1966 | **** | Ayub | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | Muhammad Ayub Khan | |||||||||||
| (President) | |||||||||||||||
| Convention Muslim League}}" | Convention Muslim League | Convention Muslim League}}" | |||||||||||||
| Military}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Vice Admiral | ||||||||||||
| Afzal Rahman Khan | |||||||||||||||
| (19211983) | 12 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1966 | 5 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1969 | **** | Military | |||||||||||||
| (Non-partisan) | |||||||||||||||
| Military}}" | [[File:Yahya Khan (cropped version).jpg | 70px]] | General | ||||||||||||
| Yahya Khan | |||||||||||||||
| (19171980) | |||||||||||||||
| (Chief Martial Law Administrator) | 25 March | ||||||||||||||
| 1969 | 20 December | ||||||||||||||
| 1971 | **** | Military | |||||||||||||
| (Non-partisan) | Yahya | Military}}" | Self | ||||||||||||
| (President) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan People's Party}}" | [[File:Z A Bhutto (President of Pakistan).jpg | 70px]] | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ||||||||||||
| (19281979) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 116 Larkana-I | |||||||||||||||
| (President until 14 Aug 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister from 14 Aug 1973) | 20 December | ||||||||||||||
| 1971 | 5 July | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | **** | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto | Pakistan People's Party}}" | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ||||||||||
| Military}}" | [[File:General Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq.jpg | 70px]] | General | ||||||||||||
| Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | |||||||||||||||
| (19241988) | |||||||||||||||
| (Chief Martial Law Administrator) | 5 July | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | 27 Aug | ||||||||||||||
| 1978 | **** | Military | |||||||||||||
| (Non-partisan) | Haq | Military}}" | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | ||||||||||||
| (President) | |||||||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:Mir-AA-Talpur.jpg | 70px]] | Ali Ahmad Talpur | ||||||||||||
| (1915–1987) | 27 August | ||||||||||||||
| 1978 | 25 February | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| Military}}" | [[File:General Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq.jpg | 70px]] | General | ||||||||||||
| Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | |||||||||||||||
| (19241988) | |||||||||||||||
| (President) | 27 February | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | 24 March | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | **** | Military | |||||||||||||
| (Non-partisan) | |||||||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:Muhammad Khan Junejo.jpg | 70px]] | Muhammad Junejo | ||||||||||||
| (19321993) | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 25 March | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | 29 May | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:Mahmoud A.Haroon (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Mahmoud Haroon | ||||||||||||
| (19202008) | 9 June | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 17 August | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | **** | ||||||||||||||
| 17 August | |||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 2 December | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Ishaq Khan | Independent}}" | Ghulam Ishaq Khan | ||||||||||||
| (Acting President) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan People's Party}}" | [[File:Oliver Mark - Benazir Bhutto, Dubai 2006 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Benazir Bhutto | ||||||||||||
| (19532007) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 166 Larkana-III | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 4 December | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 6 August | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 | **** | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto I | Pakistan People's Party}}" | Self | ||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | 70px]] | Nawaz Sharif | ||||||||||||
| (born 1949) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 12 Abbottabad-II | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 6 November | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 | 10 September | ||||||||||||||
| 1991 | **** | Muslim League | |||||||||||||
| (IJI) | Nawaz I | Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | Nawaz Sharif | ||||||||||||
| Muslim League (Pakistan)}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Ghous Ali Shah | ||||||||||||
| (born 1934) | 10 September | ||||||||||||||
| 1991 | 18 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | **** | ||||||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Hazar Khan Bijarani | ||||||||||||
| (19462018) | |||||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 18 April | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 26 May | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Mazari | Independent}}" | Balakh Sher Mazari | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Ghous Ali Shah | ||||||||||||
| (born 1934) | 26 May | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 18 July | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | **** | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | |||||||||||||
| (IJI) | Nawaz I | Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | Nawaz Sharif | ||||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Lieutenant General (Retd) | ||||||||||||
| Rehm Dil Bhatti | |||||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 23 July | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 19 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Qureshi | Independent}}" | Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan People's Party}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Aftab Shaban Mirani | ||||||||||||
| (1940–2025) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 154 Shikarpur-I | 19 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 5 November | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | **** | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto II | Pakistan People's Party}}" | Benazir Bhutto | ||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Shahid Hamid | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 11 November | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 17 February | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Khalid | Independent}}" | Malik Meraj Khalid | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | 70px]] | Nawaz Sharif | ||||||||||||
| (born 1949) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 12 Abbottabad-II | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 17 February | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | 12 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | **** | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Nawaz II | Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | Self | ||||||||||
| Military}}" | [[File:Pervez Musharraf - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos - 2008 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | General | ||||||||||||
| Pervez Musharraf | |||||||||||||||
| (19432023) | |||||||||||||||
| (Chief Executive) | 12 October | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | 23 November | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | **** | Military | |||||||||||||
| (Non-partisan) | Musharraf | Military}}" | Self | ||||||||||||
| (Chief Executive) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Rao Sikandar Iqbal | ||||||||||||
| (19432010) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 144 Okara-II | |||||||||||||||
| (Senior Minister) | 23 November | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | 15 November | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | **** | Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians | Jamali | Pakistan Muslim League (Q)}}" | Zafarullah Khan Jamali | ||||||||||
| Hussain | Pakistan Muslim League (Q)}}" | Shujaat Hussain | |||||||||||||
| Aziz | Pakistan Muslim League (Q)}}" | Shaukat Aziz | |||||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Salim Abbas Jilani | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 15 November | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 24 March | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Soomro | Independent}}" | Muhammad Mian Soomro | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Peoples Party}}" | [[File:Defense.gov photo essay 100121-F-6655M-101 (cropped) (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Ahmad Mukhtar | ||||||||||||
| (19462020) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 105 Gujrat-II | 31 March | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | 3 June | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | **** | Pakistan People's Party | Gillani | Pakistan People's Party}}" | Yousaf Raza Gillani | ||||||||||
| Pakistan Peoples Party}}" | [[File:International Defence Exhibition and Seminar, IDEAS 2012, Karachi (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Naveed Qamar | ||||||||||||
| (born 1955) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 222 Hyderabad-V | 4 June | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 16 March | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | **** | Ashraf | Pakistan People's Party}}" | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf | |||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Mir Hazar Khan Khosa | ||||||||||||
| (19292021) | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | |||||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 4 April | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | 4 June | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Khoso | Independent}}" | Self | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | 70px]] | Nawaz Sharif | ||||||||||||
| (born 1949) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 120 Lahore-III | |||||||||||||||
| (Prime Minister) | 7 June | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | 26 November | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | **** | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Nawaz III | Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | Nawaz Sharif | ||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Khawaja Asif | ||||||||||||
| (born 1949) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 71 Sialkot | 27 November | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | 28 July | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | **** | ||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:Khurram Dastgir Khan Senate of Poland.JPG | 70px]] | Khurram Dastgir | ||||||||||||
| (born 1970) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 96 Gujranwala-II | 4 August | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | 31 May | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | **** | Abbasi | Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | |||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:Abdullah Hussain Haroon (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Abdullah Hussain Haroon | ||||||||||||
| (born 1950) | |||||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 5 June | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 18 August | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Mulk | Independent}}" | Nasirul Mulk | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf}}" | [[File:Pervez Khattak portrait.jpg | 70px]] | Pervez Khattak | ||||||||||||
| (born 1950) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 25 Nowshera-I | 20 August | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 10 April | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | **** | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | Imran | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf}}" | Imran Khan | ||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Khawaja Asif | ||||||||||||
| (born 1949) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 73 Sialkot-II | 19 April | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 10 August | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | **** | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Shehbaz I | Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | Shehbaz Sharif | ||||||||||
| Independent}}" | [[File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | 70px]] | Lieutenant General (Retd) | ||||||||||||
| Anwar Ali Hyder | |||||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | 17 August | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 4 March | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | **** | Independent | |||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | Kakar | Independent}}" | Anwaar ul Haq Kakar | ||||||||||||
| (Caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | [[File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Khawaja Asif | ||||||||||||
| (born 1949) | |||||||||||||||
| MNA for 71 Sialkot-II | 11 March | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Incumbent | **** | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Shehbaz II | Pakistan Muslim League (N)}}" | Shehbaz Sharif |
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