Shehbaz Sharif
Shehbaz Sharif | |
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| 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 11 April 2022 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Preceded by | Imran Khan |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In-office 20 August 2018 – 10 April 2022 | |
| President | Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi |
| Preceded by | Khurshid Ahmed Shah |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 13 August 2018 | |
| Constituency | NA-132 (Lahore-X) |
| Chief Minister of Punjab | |
| In-office 8 June 2013 – 8 June 2018 | |
| Governor | Mohammad Sarwar Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana |
| Preceded by | Najam Sethi (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Hasan Askari Rizvi (acting) |
| In-office 8 June 2008 – 26 March 2013 | |
| Governor | Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood Latif Khosa Salmaan Taseer |
| Preceded by | Dost Muhammad Khosa |
| Succeeded by | Najam Sethi (acting) |
| In-office 20 February 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
| Governor | Shahid Hamid Zulfiqar Ali Khosa |
| Preceded by | Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat (caretaker) |
| Succeeded by | Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi (2002) |
| President of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 13 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Nawaz Sharif |
| In-office 2009–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Nisar Ali Khan |
| Succeeded by | Nawaz Sharif |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 September 1951 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
| Spouse(s) | Begum Nusrat (m. 1973)Tehmina Durrani (m. 2003) |
| Children | 4, including Hamza |
| Relatives | See Sharif family |
| Education | Government College University, Lahore (BA) |
Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif popularly known
as Shehbaz Sharif or Shahbaz Sharif, born Septemberin Lahore, is a Pakistani statesman. He
is particularly influential in Punjab, having served three
times as chief minister of that province. He takes the lead of
the opposition on before becoming Prime Minister on .
Brother
of Nawaz Sharif, who served three times
as Prime Minister, he is a prominent member of the Pakistan
Muslim League (N) which he has chaired since 2018. Many times elected local
MP in the Punjab Provincial Assembly, he served three times as Chief Minister, leading the local government of the
province, from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2008 to 2018.
Having become the leader of the opposition after the fall of his brother and the defeat of his party in the 2018 legislative elections, he was in turn arrested for corruption and briefly imprisoned. He is working alongside the opposition union and improving his relations with the military. Taking advantage of the political crisis of 2022, he initiated a motion of censure against Imran Khan and was elected Prime Minister on April.
Family and Education
Shehbaz
Sharif is the second son of Muhammad Sharif, founder of the powerful industrial
group Ittefaq Group, of
which he is co-owner and of which he contributed strongly to the development
of his older brother, Nawaz Sharif.
He
married Nusrat Shahbaz in 1973. He
then remarried Aaliya Honey in 1993 and divorced while he was in exile in Saudi
Arabia. He then married Tehmina
Durrani, writer, and feminist activist, in 2005.
Political career
First term as Chief Minister
During
his brother's second term as Prime Minister, he was the Chief
Minister of Punjab Province,
i.e. the head of local government in the province. He performs his duties
fromFebruary 20, 1997to, before going into exile at the same time as his
brother when the latter was overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf's
coup.
Exile in Saudi Arabia
He
chairs the Pakistan Muslim League (N) while
his brother is its leader. He was elected to this position onAugust 3, 2002for a
term of four years, and re-electedAugust 2, 2006.
He
returned to Pakistan at the same time as his
brother, in 2007, thanks to the intervention of
the Saudi government and the approach of the 2008 elections.
Second term as Chief Minister
His
party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N), came
second in the 2008 elections and
won almost half of the seats in the Punjab Provincial
Assembly. He was elected to this position on Juneby a
vote of the Assembly with 265 votes out of 371 seats. He was then the only
candidate since the PPP withdrew in his favor and
the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) boycotted
the election. He took the lead in a coalition bringing together the PPP
and his party, which then totaled 277 seats (171 plus 106). The following
day, he won a vote of confidence with 266 votes.
He
is forced to leave his post after a judgment of the Supreme
Court rendering him ineligible on February. This judgment is canceled onby another judgment of the Court, and Shahbaz Sharif regains his
post.
In
particular, he announced his desire to transform Lahore, the
capital of the province, into a major world technological center. In February, he inaugurated a network of “ high service level buses ”,
after having had to give up the Lahore metro project,
which was too expensive.
After
an attack in Lahore on July 1,
he was accused of laxity towards Islamist movements based in his province. Shahbaz
is regularly at the heart of controversies concerning possible interventions by
the army in the south of the province of Punjab against banned Islamist
movements.
Third term as Chief Minister
Following the 2013 legislative elections, the League won an absolute majority in the National Assembly, and Nawaz Sharif became prime minister again. In the Punjab Provincial Assembly, the League won an overwhelming three-fourths majority, and on June, Shehbaz is elected to a third term with 300 votes against 34.
In , Shehbaz organizes a ceremony for the first tests of the
Skytrain in Lahore, which will become the first in the country.
, his brother Nawaz Sharif was dismissed from his post as Prime Minister and MP by the Supreme Court. His party appointed the next day Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to succeed him while Shehbaz Sharif is approached to take this post if he would be a federal deputy.
Finally,
it was Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif who
was nominated as a candidate in her husband's constituency in Lahore after
winning the partial legislative7, while
the strategic choice is made to keep Shehbaz at the head of the local
government of Punjab until the end of
the legislature.
2018 legislative elections
While
his brother is increasingly cornered by justice, Shehbaz Sharif gradually
replaces him. On February, the Supreme Court issued an order prohibiting Nawaz Sharif
from leading his party, and the February, Shehbaz is appointed president of the Muslim
League of Pakistan (N). He
thus logically becomes the candidate for the post of Prime
Minister for the legislative
elections of 2018 and abandons provincial politics in favor of federal
representation.
, his brother Nawaz was sentenced to ten years in prison for corruption
and his niece Maryam Sharif to seven. Nawaz
and Maryam are arrested and then imprisoned as they attempt to return to
Pakistan on July, while Shehbaz organized a prohibited demonstration of support during
which several activists were also arrested. The Sharif clan
accuses the powerful Pakistani army of plotting against
it, while some media and officials note repression against the outgoing party
and denounce censorship.
The Pakistan
Muslim League (N) suffered a defeat on July 25, 2018, in parliamentary elections by ceding first place to the
Pakistan Justice Movement. However, with 64 seats out of 272,
the League became the leading force in the opposition. Shehbaz Sharif was
elected federal deputy in the tenth constituency of Lahore with
50.4% of the vote but was largely defeated in the three other constituencies in
which he ran, Karachi, Dera
Ghazi Khan, and Swat.
Leader of the Opposition
, he was arrested for corruption concerning a real estate project in Punjab. He is placed in detention for ten days.
, Imran Khan was elected Prime
Minister by the National Assembly by
176 votes in favor, four more than the required majority, against 96 votes for
Shehbaz Sharif. This one becomes
the official leader of the parliamentary opposition three days later, the.
, he was again arrested for a case of money laundering. April, he was released by the decision of the High Court of Lahore after
payment of a bail of five million rupees.
In 2021, Shehbaz Sharif seems to distance himself from his brother Nawaz and his niece Maryam by criticizing the party's strategy as well as their confrontation with the military.
In
particular, he improves his relations with key generals. Focusing his
rhetoric on economic issues, he attacks the government of Imran
Khan for its record. In
March 2022, he tabled as leader of the opposition a motion of censure against
the Prime Minister who had just lost his majority in the National
Assembly. The political crisis finally
led to the adoption of this motion after intervention by the Supreme
Court.
Prime Minister
Shehbaz Sharif describes his appointment as "the victory of good over evil" and promises to focus on the country's economic difficulties and improving foreign relations. In particular, he announced an increase in the minimum wage to 25,000 rupees and a 10% increase in pensions.
On April, Shehbaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister by
the National Assembly with
174 votes out of a total of 342 seats, two more than an
absolute majority. In addition to his party, he unites around him the Pakistan
People's Party, the Islamist Jamiat
Ulema-e-Islam, and various smaller parties. Supporters of Imran
Khan boycotted the session, denouncing the corruption scandals
surrounding Sharif and pointing the finger at a “foreign conspiracy” against
the previous government.
His election is a return of Pakistan to the era of political dynasties, which traditionally reign over the country.
On
April 16, his son Hamza Shehbaz was elected chief
minister of Punjab.
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