Shehbaz Sharif

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Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Pakistan since 2024, having previously been in the role between 2022 and 2023. He has also served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and chief minister of Punjab three times, spanning over 12 years, making him the longest-serving person in the role.
Sharif was elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1988 and later to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1990, when his brother became head of the conservative Islami Jamhuri Ittihad (IJI). He was re-elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1993 and appointed leader of the opposition. He was elected as chief minister of Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab, for the first time on 20 February 1997. After the 1999 Pakistani coup d’état, Nawaz and his brother Shehbaz, struck a deal with the military establishment, which was brokered by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and went into exile for a period of ten years in Saudi Arabia, returning to Pakistan in 2007. Sharif was appointed chief minister for a second term after the PML(N)’s victory in Punjab in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He was elected as…