Shahbaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif (Urdu: میاں محمد شہباز شریف)
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, PML(N)
15th Chief Minister of Punjab Province
In office 31 March, 2009 – Incumbent
President	Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Yousaf Raza Gillani
Governor	Latif Khosa Salmaan Taseer
Preceded by	Dost Muhammad Khosa
Constituency	Bhakkar, Punjab Province
Majority	Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N)
In office 20 February, 1997 – 12 October, 1999
President	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar Farooq Leghari Wasim Sajjad
Prime Minister	Navaz Scharif
Governor	Shahid Hamid Zulfiqar Ali Khosa
3rd President of Pakistan Muslim League (N)
In office September 30, 2002 – July 27, 2011
Vice President	Ghaus Ali Shah
1st Executive Vice President of Pakistan Muslim League (N)
In office October 12, 1999 – September 30, 2002
President	Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif
Personal details
Born	Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif 1950 (age 60–61) Lahore, Punjab Province, West-Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Political party	Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N)
Spouse(s)	Begum Nusrat Shahbaz (1973–1993) Aaliya Honey (1993–1994) Tehmina Durrani (2003 - Present)
Residence	Chief Minister House, Lahore (official)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Businessman
Religion	Sunni Islam

Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif (Punjabi, Urdu: میاں محمد شہاز شریف, born 1950) is a well-known conservative Pakistani politician and currently President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N). He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab since 2008. Previously, he held this position from 1997 to 1999, when Pervez Musharraf took control of Pakistan in a military coup. He, along with his entire family, was forced into exile until his return to Pakistan in late 2007.

Family

Mian Shahbaz Sharif is the second son of a Kashmiri, named Mian Muhammad Sharif. He is a joint owner of Ittefaq Group. He played a vital role in the success of Ittefaq Group. Shahbaz Sharif's first marriage was with his cousin Nusrat Shahbaz (نصرت شہباز) in 1973, with the approval of his father, the late Mian Muhammad Sharif. They have two sons Hamza Shahbaz and Salman, and three daughters. Hamza Shahbaz is in politics and is a member of the National Assembly. Salman Shahbaz, educated at college, concentrates mainly on business. Shahbaz Sharif's second marriage was with Aaliya Honey (عالیہ ہنی) in 1993-94. They have one daughter, Khadija. He divorced her while in exile in Saudi Arabia. It is claimed that Shahbaz Sharif has a third marriage with Tehmina Durrani but he never publicly admitted it. This is the third marriage for both of them.

First term Chief Minister of Punjab

He was considered a strict and demanding administrator as the chief minister of Punjab. He received some criticism because he took charge of the office when his brother was the Prime Minister of Pakistan^{[citation needed]} He was ousted along with his brother in the 1999 military coup, which brought Pervez Musharraf to power. He had been a notorious chief minister due to his strict administration.

^[1] http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-4-2003_pg1_6==Exile== Shahbaz Sharif lived in exile in London with his brother as a result of a deal he and his brother made with Pervaiz Musharraf, the exiled former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif after coming from Saudi Arabia. Although Sharif brothers denied the existence of any deal, but the deal papers were made public in 2008. He once tried coming back to Pakistan following a High Court decision that he was free to come back whenever he wanted. On May 11, 2004 his plane landed at Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore but he was arrested and again deported to Saudi Arabia within a few hours.

Shahbaz Sharif also utilised his time in exile to get a hair transplant. His elder brother Nawaz was very impressed and soon followed suit.

President of Pakistan Muslim League (N)

Mian Shahbaz Sharif was elected President of PML (N) on 3 August 2002 while in exile in Saudi Arabia. He was re-elected President of PML(N) for a second term on 2 August 2006.

Return to Pakistan

In August 2007, Supreme Court of Pakistan gave its verdict which allowed Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan.

On September 7, 2007, judge Shabbir Hussain Chatha ordered police to arrest Shahbaz Sharif, brother of Nawaz Sharif and produce him before the court, after the hearing in Lahore. The court ruled that "Shahbaz Sharif should be arrested (at) whichever airport he lands at." Nawaz Sharif too faces detention on the pair's planned return from exile to Pakistan on September 10, 2007, to challenge President Pervez Musharraf's 8-year military rule.^[2]

His brother Mian Shahbaz Sharif changed return plans at the last minute.^[3][4]

Sharif was not allowed to participate in the 2008 elections because of allegations against him. His son Hamza Sharif was supposed to run from a NA seat in Lahore but due to the death of a candidate the elections were postponed.

Second term as Chief Minister

On 8 June 2008, Shahbaz Sharif was elected as Chief Minister of Punjab, receiving 265 votes from the members of the 371-seat provincial assembly. He was the only candidate, and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q boycotted the vote. Speaking after his election, he called on Musharraf to resign.^[5] He won a vote of confidence on 9 June, receiving 266 votes.^[6]

His second term as Chief Minister lasted until 25 February 2009, when a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Justice Moosa K. Leghari, declared him ineligible to contest elections, took away his seat in the Punjab Assembly, and thereby removed him from office.^[7] On 31 March 2009, a five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court granted stay order on an earlier decision of the apex court, in which Mian Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif were disqualified from holding public office. As a result, Shahbaz Sharif returned to office as Chief Minister. He seems to have vision; a mega plan to transform Lahore into a true High-Tech City in Pakistan (Singapore of Pakistan)as well as an important high tech center in the entire world.^[8]

See also

• Nawaz Sharif
• Muhammad Sharif
• Hamza Shahbaz
• Ittefaq Group
• Lahore
• Punjab, Pakistan
• Politics of Pakistan
• Pakistan

References

1. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named undefined; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
2. ^ Channel NewsAsia, Pakistan court orders arrest of Sharif's brother
3. ^ ChannelNewsAsia.com, US says ex-Pakistani premier Sharif's deportation an "internal matter"
4. ^ Newkeral.com, US denies hand in Sharif deportation
5. ^ "Former Pak PM's brother elected provincial chief executive", Xinhua (People's Daily Online), 8 June 2008.
6. ^ "CM Shahbaz Sharif gets Vote of Confidence", Pakistan Times, 10 June 2008.
7. ^ http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/pakistan/2009/02/26/197738/Pakistan-faces.htm
8. ^ Nirupama Subramanian, "Shahbaz back as Chief Minister", The Hindu, 1 April 2009.

External links

• Official website
• Shahbaz Sharif at Twitter
• Pml(N)Official website
• Interview with Shahid Masood on Geo TV (in Urdu) - 16 June 2007

Political offices
Preceded by Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat	Chief Minister of Punjab 1997 – 1999	Succeeded by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Preceded by Dost Muhammad Khosa	2nd term 2008 – 2009	Succeeded by Salmaan Taseer (Governor's Rule)
Preceded by Salmaan Taseer	(Restored) 2009 – present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Nawaz Sharif	President of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) 2002 - 2011	Succeeded by Nawaz Sharif

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Date of birth	1950
Place of birth	Lahore, Punjab Province, West-Pakistan
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