The three-time World Champion Muhammad Asif has qualified to compete in the Commonwealth Snooker & Billiard Sports Championship 2025.

The Pakistan Billiards & Snooker Association (PBSA) stated in a press release that the ace cueist qualified for participation in the Commonwealth Snooker & Billiard Sports Championship 2025 in Mauritius by virtue of winning the recent IBSF World Men Snooker Championship 2024, in Doha, Qatar.

The World Confederation of Billiards Sports is hosting the Commonwealth Snooker & Billiard Sports Championship 2025 from July 2 to July 6.

"We have submitted the visa documents of Muhammad Asif in the Mauritius Embassy in Islamabad and are waiting for obtaining the visa," the PBSA Honorary Secretary Naveed Kapadia told the media. "We believe in Muhammad Asif's ability to achieve great things on the World Snooker arena, and we are confident that he will bring home a medal for our beloved country.

"We wish the best of luck to our IBSF World Champion Muhammad Asif and we are all incredibly proud of him, and we are behind him in every way. May his journey to victory be filled with joy, success, and unwavering spirit. Go get that medal."

Asif became the second person to win the IBSF World Championship thrice. He took his first title in 2012, then in 2019 and in 2024 he won it for the third time.

Apart form individual titles, Asif has also won the IBSF Team Snooker Championships twice for Pakistan. In 2013, he partnered with Muhammad Sajjad to take the title for the first time and then he paired with Babar Masih to win it in 2017, where they defeated team 1 from Pakistan which had his former snooker partner Sajjad and Muhammad Asjad as their opponents in the final.

Asif also ventured into the professional snooker as he competed at the British Open qualifying round in 2023.