Nawaz Sharif

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Born 1949
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The Panama Papers
2018

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Updated 2026-08-23

He's held Pakistan's top office three times and lost it three times — ousted, jailed, exiled, disqualified, then cleared and back again. The longest-serving prime minister in the country's history has never finished a term on his own terms.

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Born into a business family in Lahore on 25 December 1949, Nawaz Sharif studied business and law before entering politics in 1981 as Punjab's finance minister under President Zia. He rose to chief minister in 1985, then won the premiership in 1990 backed by military generals and conservative coalitions. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the assembly and removed him in 1993. He returned as prime minister in 1997, only to be ousted again in 1999 by General Pervez Musharraf's coup, imprisoned, and sentenced to death before US pressure and a Saudi-brokered deal sent him into ten-year exile. He…

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