Asif Muhammad Bajwa

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( ur, ) (born 8 March 1969) is a former

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player who played for

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from 1992 to 1996. He later became the team's manager and chief coach. As of 2022, he is the secretary general of

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Career

Asif started his career against Spain in 1991. Bajwa was a member of Pakistan's World Cup-winning hockey team in

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, and played 74 international matches and scored 25 goals in his career. Bajwa assisted

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in scoring the only goal of 1994 Hockey World Cup Final with an accurate cross from the right. He was a part of the bronze-winning Pakistan team at the

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. In 1995, Asif Bajwa received a

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Award from the

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. In 2008, he became the secretary general of the

, a role he has served in intermittently since then. On May 7, 2017 Asif Bajwa officially joined

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to contest in 2018 general election for the

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from the constituency NA-114 Sialkot.

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Pakistan Hockey Team
1969 births Living people Field hockey players from Sialkot Pakistani male field hockey players Pakistani field hockey coaches Recipients of the Pride of Performance Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Pakistan Asian Games medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1994 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Pakistan Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Pakistani sportsperson-politicians {{Pakistan-fieldhockey-bio-stub