Shahbaz Sharif

Shahbaz Sharif

Mian Shahbaz Sharif (Punjabi, Urdu: میاں محمد شہاز شریف‎, born 1950) is politician of Pakistan. Most of people in Pakistan know him as a reformer due the fact that he has changed the shape of Punjab and developed it according to modern standards. He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab from 2008 to 2013. Previously, he held this position from 1997 to 1999, when Pervez Musharraf toppled the government in "coup d'état". He, along with his entire family, was sent to exile to Saudi Arabia. The entire family returned back to Pakistan in 2007.

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