Musadik Malik

Musadik Masood Malik is a Pakistani politician who serves as Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination and as a senator for the Pakistan Muslim League (N). He took the oath as a senator on 12 March 2018 and was re-elected on 2 April 2024 on a technocrat seat from Punjab.

He studied pharmacy at the University of the Punjab and holds an MBA, an MS and a PhD from the University of Illinois. He was federal minister for water and power in a caretaker cabinet from 3 April 2013 to 4 June 2013, and spokesperson for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from 21 November 2014. He served as federal minister for petroleum and water resources from 28 April 2022 to 10 August 2023, and again from 11 March 2024 to 7 March 2025, before taking the climate change portfolio in Shehbaz Sharif’s government in 2025.

He is in the news because Pakistan announced on Saturday, 14 November 2026, that he will attend the SCO Civilisational Dialogue Forum in Delhi from 20 to 22 November, accepting India’s invitation. India had first invited Pakistan’s culture minister, Aurangzeb Khan Khichi. Ties between the two countries have been strained since the Pahalgam attack of 22 April 2025.

Sources: Wikipedia, The Tribune, PTI via ThePrint