Dr. Asad Ashraf

Asad Ashraf (; born 21 June 1963) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan, since March 2018. Previously he had been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from 2002 to 2013.

Early life and education He was born on 21 June 1963 in Lahore.

He earned the degree of MBBS from Allama Iqbal Medical College in 1986 and did his PgDip in Cardiology from National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi in 1994. During his tenure as Member of the Punjab Assembly, he remained deputy parliamentary leader of PML-N in the Punjab Assembly.

He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as an independent candidate Constituency PP-138 (Lahore-II) in 2013 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 12 votes and lost the seat to Ghazali Saleem Butt. In the same election, he ran for the seat of the National Assembly as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-118 (Lahore-I) but was unsuccessful. He received 16 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Riaz Malik.

Ashraf was elected to the Senate of Pakistan from Punjab general seat as an independent candidate in by-election held on 1 March 2018. He received 298 votes against a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf who secured 38 votes. Ashraf was backed by PML-N which initially nominated him, but he had to run in the polls independently after the Election Commission of Pakistan declared his nomination papers void following the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He took oath as Senator on 12 March 2018.