Pakistan gets its 1st full-time Foreign Minister since 2013
Khawaja Asif has been appointed as the new Pakistani Foreign Minister, the first full-time leader to hold the post since 2013. Asif, a former banker and an ally of recently-ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, earlier served as the Minister of Defence and Minister of Water and Power in the third Sharif ministry from 2013 to 2017.