Shehbaz Sharif
Shehbaz Sharif | |
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شہباز شریف | |
Sharif in 2024 | |
| 20th Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 4 March 2024 | |
| President | Arif Alvi Asif Ali Zardari |
| Deputy | Ishaq Dar |
| Preceded by | Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (Caretaker) |
| In office 11 April 2022 – 13 August 2023 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Preceded by | Imran Khan |
| Succeeded by | Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (Caretaker) |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 20 August 2018 – 10 April 2022 | |
| President | |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Preceded by | Khurshid Shah |
| Succeeded by | Raja Riaz |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 29 February 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Himself (NA-132 (Lahore-X)) |
| Constituency | NA-123 (Lahore-VII) |
| In office 13 August 2018 – 10 August 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Khawaja Saad Rafique (NA-125 (Lahore-VIII)) Shazia Mubashar (NA-129 (Lahore-XII)) Sohail Shaukat Butt (NA-130 (Lahore-XIII)) |
| Succeeded by | Himself (NA-123 (Lahore-VII)) |
| Constituency | NA-132 (Lahore-X) |
| In office 3 November 1990 – 18 July 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Jehangir Bader |
| Succeeded by | Kamil Ali Agha |
| Constituency | NA-96 (Lahore-V) |
| 13th and 16th Chief Minister of Punjab | |
| In office 7 June 2013 – 7 June 2018 | |
| Governor | |
| Preceded by | Najam Sethi (caretaker) |
| Succeeded by | Hasan Askari Rizvi (caretaker) |
| In office 30 March 2009 – 26 March 2013 | |
| Governor | |
| Preceded by | Governor's rule |
| Succeeded by | Najam Sethi (caretaker) |
| In office 8 June 2008 – 25 February 2009 | |
| Governor | |
| Preceded by | Dost Muhammad Khosa |
| Succeeded by | Governor's rule |
| In office 20 February 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat (caretaker) |
| Succeeded by | Parvez Elahi |
| President of Pakistan Muslim League (N) | |
| In office 13 March 2018 – 13 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Nawaz Sharif |
| Succeeded by | Nawaz Sharif |
| In office 2009–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan |
| Succeeded by | Nawaz Sharif |
| Leader of the Opposition of Punjab | |
| In office 18 October 1993 – 17 November 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Rana Ikram Rabbani |
| Succeeded by | Saeed Ahmed Khan |
| Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab | |
| In office 18 October 1993 – 31 May 2018 | |
| In office 30 November 1988 – 6 August 1990 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif 23 September 1951 Lahore, West Punjab, Dominion of Pakistan |
| Political party | PML-N (1993–present) |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 4, including Hamza Shahbaz |
| Parent(s) | Mian Muhammad Sharif (father) Shamim Akhtar (mother) |
| Relatives | Sharif family |
| Education | Government College University, Lahore (BA) |
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Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the 20th prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024, having previously been in the role between April 2022 to August 2023. He has also served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) and chief minister of Punjab three times, making him the longest-serving person in the role.
Shehbaz was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in 1988 and to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1990. He was again elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1993 and named 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, Shehbaz, along with his family, spent years of self-exile in Saudi Arabia, returning to Pakistan in 2007. Shehbaz was appointed chief minister for a second term after the PML-N's victory in Punjab province in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He was elected as chief minister of Punjab for the third time in the 2013 general election and served his term until his party's defeat in the 2018 general election. During his tenure as chief minister, Shehbaz undertook development initiatives including transportation in Lahore. Shehbaz was nominated as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N after his brother, Nawaz Sharif, was disqualified from holding office in the wake of the Panama Papers case.
He was nominated as the leader of the opposition after the 2018 election, and elected prime minister in 2022 after the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan was passed in the National Assembly. After the PML(N) won a minority in the 2024 general election, Sharif became prime minister with a coalition government.