Nawaz Sharif

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Nawaz Sharif
نواز شریف
Official portrait, 2013
12th, 14th & 20th Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 5 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
President	Asif Ali Zardari Mamnoon Hussain
Preceded by	Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (caretaker)
Succeeded by	Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
In office 17 February 1997 – 12 October 1999
President	Farooq Leghari Wasim Sajjad (acting) Rafiq Tarar
Preceded by	Malik Meraj Khalid (caretaker)
Succeeded by	Pervez Musharraf (chief executive)
In office 6 November 1990 – 18 July 1993
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Preceded by	Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (Caretaker)
Succeeded by	Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi (caretaker)
Leader of the Opposition
In office 19 October 1993 – 5 November 1996
Preceded by	Benazir Bhutto
Succeeded by	Benazir Bhutto
President of Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 May 2024
Preceded by	Shehbaz Sharif
In office 27 July 2011 – 16 August 2017
Preceded by	Javed Hashmi
Succeeded by	Sardar Yaqoob (interim)
In office 6 October 1993 – 12 October 1999
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif
9th Chief Minister of Punjab
In office 9 April 1985 – 13 August 1990
Governor	Ghulam Jilani Khan Sajjad Hussain Qureshi Tikka Khan
Preceded by	Sadiq Hussain Qureshi
Succeeded by	Ghulam Haider Wyne
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 February 2024
Preceded by	Waheed Alam Khan
Constituency	NA-130 Lahore-XIV
In office 1 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
Preceded by	Bilal Yasin
Succeeded by	Kalsoom Nawaz
Constituency	NA-120 Lahore-III
In office 1993–1997
Constituency	NA-95 Lahore-IV
In office 1997–1999
Constituency	NA-95 Lahore-IV
Provincial Minister for Finance of Punjab
In office 1981–1985
Personal details
Born	Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (1949-12-25) 25 December 1949 (age 74) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party	Pakistan Muslim League (N) (1999–present)
Other political affiliations	Pakistan Muslim League (1976–1999) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1988–1993)
Spouse	Kulsoom Nawaz ​ ​ (m. 1971; died 2018)​
Children	4 (including Maryam Nawaz)
Relatives	See Sharif family
Alma mater	Govt. College University University of the Punjab
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Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu: میاں محمد نواز شریف; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pakistan, having served a total of more than 9 years across three tenures. Each term has ended in his ousting.

Born into the upper-middle-class Sharif family in Lahore, Nawaz is the son of Muhammad Sharif, the founder of Ittefaq and Sharif groups. He is the elder brother of Shehbaz Sharif, who also served as prime minister of Pakistan from 2022 to 2023 and from 2024 to present. According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, Nawaz is one of the wealthiest men in Pakistan, with an estimated net worth of at least Rs. 1.75 billion (equivalent to Rs. 8.9 billion or US$31 million in 2021).^[1] Most of his wealth originates from his businesses in steel construction.^[2]

Before entering politics in the mid-1980s, Nawaz studied business at Government College and law at the University of Punjab. In 1981, Nawaz was appointed by President Zia as the minister of finance for the province of Punjab. Backed by a loose coalition of conservatives, Nawaz was elected as the Chief Minister of Punjab in 1985 and re-elected after the end of martial law in 1988. In 1990, Nawaz led the conservative Islamic Democratic Alliance and became the 12th prime minister of Pakistan.

After being ousted in 1993, when President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly, Nawaz served as the leader of the opposition to the government of Benazir Bhutto from 1993 to 1996. He returned to the premiership after the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) was elected in 1997, and served until his removal in 1999 by military takeover and was tried in a plane hijacking case which was argued by Barrister Ijaz Husain Batalvi, assisted by Khawaja Sultan senior Advocate, Sher Afghan Asdi and Akhtar Aly Kureshy Advocate. After being imprisoned and later exiled for more than a decade, he returned to politics in 2011 and led his party to victory for the third time in 2013.^[3]

In 2017, Nawaz was removed from office by the Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding revelations from the Panama Papers case.^[4] In 2018, the Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz from holding public office,^[5][6] and he was also sentenced to ten years in prison by an accountability court.^[7] Since 2019, Nawaz was in London for medical treatment on bail. He was also declared an absconder by a Pakistani court, however, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted him protective bail till October 24 in the Avenfield and Al-Aziza cases.^[8][9][10] In 2023, after four years of exile, he returned to Pakistan.^[11]

In a legal proceeding, a division bench, consisting of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb, adjudicated Nawaz Sharif's appeals challenging his sentences in the Avenfield and Al-Azizia Steel Mills cases. The outcome of these proceedings resulted in the acquittal of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif on 29 November 2023 from charges related to the Avenfield Apartments references by the IHC.^[12]