Asif Bajwa
# Asif Bajwa

Asif Muhammad Bajwa OLY (Urdu: عاصف محمد باجوہ) (born 8 March 1969) is a former field hockey player who played for Pakistan from 1992 to 1996. He later became the team's manager and chief coach. As of 2022, he is the secretary general of Pakistan Hockey Federation.

## Career

Asif started his career against Spain in 1991. Bajwa was a member of Pakistan's World Cup-winning hockey team in 1994, and played 74 international matches and scored 25 goals in his career. Bajwa assisted Kamran Ashraf 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 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

In 1995, Asif Bajwa received a Pride of Performance Award from the Government of Pakistan. In 2008, he became the secretary general of the Pakistan Hockey Federation, a role he has served in intermittently since then.

On May 7, 2017 Asif Bajwa officially joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to contest in 2018 general election for the National Assembly from the constituency NA-114 Sialkot.

