Minister of Defence (Pakistan)
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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
- <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Caretaker minister
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>† Died in office
| Portrait | Name (BornTemplate:NdashDied)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Tenure | Party | Government | Head of Government | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Length | |||||||
| Federal Minister of Defence | |||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Liaquat Ali Khan 1945.jpg | Liaquat Ali Khan (1947Template:Ndash1951) MCA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
15 August 1947 |
16 October 1951<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†] |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League | Liaquat | style="width:0.01em" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Khawaja Nazimuddin of Pakistan.JPG | Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894Template:Ndash1964) MCA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
24 October 1951 |
17 April 1953 |
Template:Ayd | Nazimuddin | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Mohammad Ali Bogra portrait (cropped).jpg | Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909–1963) MCA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
18 April 1953 |
24 October 1954 |
Template:Ayd | Bogra | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Mohammad Ali Bogra | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Muhammed Ayub Khan.JPG | GeneralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Muhammad Ayub Khan (1907Template:Ndash1974)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Commander-in-Chief of the ArmyScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
24 October 1954 |
11 August 1955 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Mohamad Ali, primeiro-ministro do Paquistão, sem data.tif | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905Template:Ndash1982) MNA for PunjabScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
12 August 1955 |
12 September 1956 |
Template:Ayd | Muhammad Ali | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:H S Suhrawardy PM.jpg | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892Template:Ndash1963) MNA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
13 September 1956 |
18 October 1957 |
Template:Ayd | Awami League | Suhrawardy | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Mumtaz Daultana (1916Template:Ndash1965) MNA for PunjabScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
19 October 1957 |
18 December 1957 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League | Chundrigar | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | I. I. Chundrigar |
| Federal Minister | 19 December 1957 |
8 April 1958 |
Template:Ayd | Republican Party | Noon | rowspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Sir Feroz Khan Noon | ||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Feroz Khan Noon.jpg | Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893–1970) MCA for PunjabScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) | |||||||
| Minister of State | |||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Nawab Akbar Bugti, (cropped).jpg | Akbar Bugti (1926Template:Ndash2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| Federal Minister of Defence | |||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Muhammad Ayub Khuhro (1901Template:Ndash1980) MNA for SindhScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 April 1958 |
7 October 1958 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League | Noon | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Sir Feroz Khan Noon |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Muhammed Ayub Khan.JPG | Field MarshalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Muhammad Ayub Khan (1907Template:Ndash1974)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (President) |
28 October 1958 |
21 October 1966 |
Template:Ayd | Ayub | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Muhammad Ayub Khan (President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Convention Muslim League | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | |||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Vice AdmiralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Afzal Rahman Khan (1921Template:Ndash1983)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
12 October 1966 |
5 April 1969 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Yahya Khan (cropped version).jpg | GeneralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Yahya Khan (1917Template:Ndash1980)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Chief Martial Law Administrator) |
25 March 1969 |
20 December 1971 |
Template:Ayd | Military (Non-partisan)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Yahya | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self (President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Z A Bhutto (President of Pakistan).jpg | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928Template:Ndash1979) MNA for 116 Larkana-IScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (President until 14 Aug 1973 Prime Minister from 14 Aug 1973) |
20 December 1971 |
5 July 1977 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:General Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq.jpg | GeneralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924Template:Ndash1988)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Chief Martial Law Administrator) |
5 July 1977 |
27 Aug 1978 |
Template:Ayd | Military (Non-partisan)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Haq | rowspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Mir-AA-Talpur.jpg | Ali Ahmad Talpur (1915–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 August 1978 |
25 February 1985 |
Template:Ayd | Independent | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:General Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq.jpg | GeneralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924Template:Ndash1988)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (President) |
27 February 1985 |
24 March 1985 |
Template:Ayd | Military (Non-partisan)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Muhammad Khan Junejo.jpg | Muhammad Junejo (1932Template:Ndash1993)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
25 March 1985 |
29 May 1988 |
Template:Ayd | Independent | |||
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Mahmoud A.Haroon (cropped).jpg | Mahmoud Haroon (1920Template:Ndash2008)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 June 1988 |
17 August 1988 |
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| 17 August 1988 |
2 December 1988 |
Ishaq Khan | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Acting President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Oliver Mark - Benazir Bhutto, Dubai 2006 (cropped).jpg | Benazir Bhutto (1953Template:Ndash2007) MNA for 166 Larkana-IIIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
4 December 1988 |
6 August 1990 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto I | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self |
| <templatestyles src="Nobold/styles.css"/>Caretaker ministry served during this interval | |||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | Nawaz Sharif (born 1949) MNA for 12 Abbottabad-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
6 November 1990 |
10 September 1991 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League (IJI)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Nawaz I | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Ghous Ali Shah (born 1934)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
10 September 1991 |
18 April 1993 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Hazar Khan Bijarani (1946Template:Ndash2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 April 1993 |
26 May 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Mazari | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Balakh Sher Mazari (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Ghous Ali Shah (born 1934)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
26 May 1993 |
18 July 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) (IJI)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Nawaz I | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Lieutenant General (Retd)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rehm Dil Bhatti (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 July 1993 |
19 October 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Qureshi | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Aftab Shaban Mirani MNA for 154 Shikarpur-IScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
19 October 1993 |
5 November 1996 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto II | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Benazir Bhutto |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Shahid Hamid (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 November 1996 |
17 February 1997 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Khalid | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Malik Meraj Khalid (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | Nawaz Sharif (born 1949) MNA for 12 Abbottabad-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
17 February 1997 |
12 October 1999 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Nawaz II | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Pervez Musharraf - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos - 2008 (cropped).jpg | GeneralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Pervez Musharraf (1943Template:Ndash2023)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Chief Executive) |
12 October 1999 |
23 November 2002 |
Template:Ayd | Military (Non-partisan)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Musharraf | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self (Chief Executive)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Rao Sikandar Iqbal (1943Template:Ndash2010) MNA for 144 Okara-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Senior Minister) |
23 November 2002 |
15 November 2007 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians | Jamali | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Zafarullah Khan Jamali |
| Hussain | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shujaat Hussain | |||||||
| Aziz | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shaukat Aziz | |||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Salim Abbas Jilani (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 November 2007 |
24 March 2008 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Soomro | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Muhammad Mian Soomro (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Defense.gov photo essay 100121-F-6655M-101 (cropped) (cropped).jpg | Ahmad Mukhtar (1946Template:Ndash2020) MNA for 105 Gujrat-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
31 March 2008 |
3 June 2012 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Gillani | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Yousaf Raza Gillani |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:International Defence Exhibition and Seminar, IDEAS 2012, Karachi (cropped).jpg | Naveed Qamar (born 1955) MNA for 222 Hyderabad-VScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 June 2012 |
16 March 2013 |
Template:Ayd | Ashraf | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929Template:Ndash2021)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 April 2013 |
4 June 2013 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Khoso | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | Nawaz Sharif (born 1949) MNA for 120 Lahore-IIIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
7 June 2013 |
26 November 2013 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Nawaz III | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | Khawaja Asif (born 1949) MNA for 71 SialkotScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 November 2013 |
28 July 2017 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Khurram Dastgir Khan Senate of Poland.JPG | Khurram Dastgir (born 1970) MNA for 96 Gujranwala-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 August 2017 |
31 May 2018 |
Template:Ayd | Abbasi | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Abdullah Hussain Haroon (cropped).jpg | Abdullah Hussain Haroon (born 1950) (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 June 2018 |
18 August 2018 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Mulk | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nasirul Mulk (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Pervez Khattak portrait.jpg | Pervez Khattak (born 1950) MNA for 25 Nowshera-IScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 August 2018 |
10 April 2022 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | Imran | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Imran Khan |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | Khawaja Asif (born 1949) MNA for 73 Sialkot-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
19 April 2022 |
10 August 2023 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Shehbaz I | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shehbaz Sharif |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Lieutenant General (Retd)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Anwar Ali Hyder (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
17 August 2023 |
4 March 2024 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Kakar | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | Khawaja Asif (born 1949) MNA for 71 Sialkot-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 March 2024 |
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See also
- Constitution of Pakistan
- President of Pakistan
- Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Ministry of Defence Pakistan
- Foreign Minister of Pakistan
- Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Interior Minister of Pakistan
- Ministry of Defence Production
Notes
References
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External links
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