His father, Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business. The Sharif family are Kashmiris of Punjab.
Nawaz was born in Lahore, Punjab, on 25 December 1949. Government College University, where Sharif studied business
In 2018, the Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz from holding public office, and he was also sentenced to ten years in prison by an accountability court. In 2017, Nawaz was removed from office by the Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding revelations from the Panama Papers case. After prison and exile for more than a decade, he returned to politics in 2011 and led his party to victory for the third time in 2013. 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. In 1990, Nawaz led the conservative Islamic Democratic Alliance and became the 12th prime minister of Pakistan.Īfter 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. 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 1981, Nawaz was appointed by President Zia as the minister of finance for the province of Punjab. Most of his wealth originates from his businesses in steel construction.īefore entering politics in the mid-1980s, Nawaz studied business at Government College and law at the University of Punjab. According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, Nawaz is the one of the wealthiest men in Pakistan, with an estimated net worth of at least USD $1.6 billion. He is the elder brother of Shehbaz Sharif, who also served as the chief minister of Punjab. Nawaz, the longest-serving prime minister of Pakistan, has served a total of more than 9 years.īorn into the upper-middle-class Sharif family in Lahore, Nawaz is the son of Muhammad Sharif, the founder of Ittefaq and Sharif Group. 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. Provincial Minister of Punjab for Finance 12th, 14th, and 20th Prime Minister of Pakistan