Saad Rafique

Khawaja Saad Rafique is one of the most popular and senior leaders of Pakistan. He is Pakistan politician and a conservative activist. Born on November 4, 1962, into a politically oriented family in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. His father Mr.

Khawaja Muhammad Rafique was a mainstream politician of Pakistan. He passed his matriculation from Local high school. He completes his graduation in BA in political science in 1984 and latter MA in Political Science in 1986.

In 1989, Rafique began to built political relationship with the PML-N due to similar ideology, and worked on party’s national conservative programme. In 1997, he participated well in the general elections on a PML(N)’s ticket for NA-119 constituency and became member of Punjab Assembly.

During this time, he was appointed as Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Youth Affairs by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but his tenure was terminated by General Pervez Musharraf after the latter self-coup in 1999. He was eventually arrested and imprisoned after calling for Musharraf’s removal.

In 2000, he began his political activism on PML(N) platform and successfully ran for NA-119 constituency in the general elections held in 2002 During this time, he was appointed provincial general secretary of the party. From 2002–07, he worked on party’s mainstream conservative programme and the public image of the party.