Shehbaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is the leading figure of mainstream political party PML (N) led by his brother Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. Born on 23 September 1951 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. He completed graduation from Government College Lahore.

His father, Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, and eventually settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab at the beginning of the twentieth century.

He is a politician of high caliber who leads from front. Has a charismatic personality who has always attracted the support of public. He was elected as a member of provisional assembly(MPA), defeating a candidate of Pakistan People Party, for the very first time in the general election of 1988 as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad party. He had to leave his position when the assemblies were dissolved in 1990.

Shehbaz Sharif had served thrice as Cheif Minister of Punjab. for the very first time on 20 February 1997. He became the 13th Cheif Minister of Pakistan in the history. He served his second term, on 8 June 2008, Sharif was elected as Chief Minister of Punjab.

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.

On 31 March 2009, a five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court overturned an earlier decision of the apex court, in which Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif were disqualified from holding public office. As a result, Shehbaz returned to office as Chief Minister.

On 6 June 2013, Sharif was elected Chief Minister of Punjab for a third term with more than two-thirds majority. During this tenure, he became a very well known personality of Pakistan who put his focus on major basic needs of the public like education, health, industries and agricultural reforms.

He unleashed a number of development projects in the capital of Punjab province, Lahore. He also did a number of reforms to reduce crime in Punjab. Metro bus, Orange line train and Ring road linkage are counted in his major and successful projects which were completed on priority basis.