Education
He attended Lawrence College, the University of Michigan (Bachelor Business Administration) and the University of Southern California (Mississippi Political Science).
He attended Lawrence College, the University of Michigan (Bachelor Business Administration) and the University of Southern California (Mississippi Political Science).
He is Secretary General of the center-right party PMLN in Punjab. He has held various portfolios over his career including Minister for Youth Affairs, Minister for Forestry Wildlife & Fisheries, and Minister for Health. He joined PML (a part of IJI then) later becoming PMLN, and was appointed Provincial Labour Minister.
He successfully contested for the same seat in 1990 and became the Punjab Minister for Forestry, Wildlife, Fisheries and Minister of Youth Affairs.
He was re-elected as an Master of Public Administration in 1993 and 1997 where he became Provincial Minister for Health and Population Welfare up until the 1999 coup d"état by General Pervez Musharraf. Following the Military Coup he took a break from his own elections to focus on strengthening PML North, and restoring Democracy and the Judiciary in Pakistan.
During this period he was twice-elected as General Secretary of PMLN in Punjab and currently holds this position. In 2008 he was appointed as Adviser to Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif.
His political career started in 1988 when he successfully contested for a Punjab Assembly seat from Murree as an Independent candidate. Within the party he became President of PML Youth Wing Punjab where he appointed Khawaja Saad Rafique as general secretary.
Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, born at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, hails from the village of Ghora Gali in the Murree Hills and is the eldest son of Raja Ghulam Sarwar (late) a two-time member of West Pakistan Assembly. On 11 May 2013 he was again elected as Member of Punjab Assembly from his home constituency of Partido Popular (Popular Party)-1 in Rawalpindi District, serving Tehsil Murree and Tehsil Kotli Sattian, maintaining his 100% electoral record.