Mian Muhammad
Nawaz Sharif pronounced born 25 December 1949 is the 12th and current Prime
Minister of Pakistan
in office since June 2013. A veteran politician and industrialist, he
previously served as Prime Minister from November 1990 to July 1993 and from
February 1997 to October 1999. The Sharif
family is a prominent political family of Pakistan
based in the Pakistani province
of Punjab. Muhammad Sharif Shamim Akhtar Muhammad
Sharif the father of Prime Minister of Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif migrated from Jati Umra Amritsar
after the creation of Pakistan
in 1947. He was a businessman who founded the Ittefaq Group in 1939 in Lahore. The Sharif families
are Punjabis of Kashmiri origin. 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. His mother's family came from
Pulwama. After the movement led by Jinnah and his struggle to create Pakistan in 1947 his parents migrated from Amritsar to Lahore.
His father followed the teachings of the Ahl al-Hadith. His family owns Ittefaq
Group a multi million-dollar steel conglomerate and Sharif Group a conglomerate
company with holdings in agriculture transport and sugar mills. He is married to Kalsoom Butt. His brother Shahbaz Sharif is the
incumbent Chief Minister of Punjab province while his nephew Hamza Shahbaz
Sharif is a member of the National Assembly as well as the Senior Chief
Minister of Punjab. His daughter Maryam Nawaz
apparently a housewife but sometimes active for her father's party is currently
the chairperson for the prime minister's youth initiative. Maryam is married to
politician Muhammad Safdar Awan. His other daughter Asma Nawaz is married to
Ali Dar son of Ishaq Dar the current finance minister of Pakistan. The
personal residence of the Sharif family Raiwind
Palace is located in Jati Umra Raiwind
on the outskirts of Lahore.
He also has a residence in Jeddah Saudi Arabia
known as the Sharif Villa where he lived during his years in exile. His son
Hussain Nawaz Sharif currently resides in the Jeddah house. As owner of the
Ittefaq Group a leading business conglomerate he is also one of the country's
wealthiest people. Born into a wealthy Sharif family in Lahore he is the son of
Ittefaq Group founder Muhammad Sharif and the brother of three-time elected
Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif.
Sharif studied business at Government College University
and later law at the University
of Punjab before entering
politics in the later 1970. In 1981 Sharif was appointed. 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. His mother's family came from
Pulwama. After the movement led by Jinnah and his struggle to create Pakistan in 1947 his parents migrated from Amritsar to Lahore.
His father followed the teachings of the Ahl al-Hadith. His family owns Ittefaq
Group a multi million-dollar steel conglomerate and Sharif Group a conglomerate
company with holdings in agriculture transport and sugar mills. He went to Saint Anthony
High School. He graduated from the Government College
University with an art and business
degree and then received a law degree from the Law
College of Punjab University in Lahore. The Panama Papers
are documents leaked in 2016 from the Mossack Fonseca law firm that disclose
client information. Much of it is innocuous, cryptic, or incomplete. Some
records do however suggest corruption or fraud by business leaders,
politicians, athletes, and other wealthy individuals and organizations. The
secrecy of offshore companies also allows tax evasion fraud or income and
identity obfuscation. According to these documents Nawaz Sharif's family holds
millions of dollars worth of property and companies in the UK and around
the world. Hussain Nawaz, whose name sometimes appears as Hassan or Hussein
said his family won't impede any investigation and urged one of former
president Pervez Musharraf as well. The government on April 15 announced an
investigation by an inquiry commission of all Pakistanis named in the
documents. Opposition politicians said a judge not a retired judge should
investigate. Various judges have already recused themselves. In addition on
April 19, 2016 Army Chief General Raheel Sharif warned that across-the-board
accountability is needed.
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