Topic summary
Shehbaz Sharif
23 September 1951
affiliations
- Mian Muhammad Sharif (father)
- Politician
- businessperson
- Premiership
- First ministry and term
- First Shehbaz Sharif government
- International trips
- Political unrest
- Pakistani economic crisis (2021–2024)
- Floods
- Special Investment Facilitation Council
- EXIM Bank
- Hazara Electric Supply Company
- Pakistan Sovereign Wealth Fund
- National Commission for Personal Data Protection
- Land Information and Management System
- National Information Technology Board
- Pakistan Computer Emergency Response Team
- National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency
- Bureau of Air Safety Investigation
- Negotiations with TTP
- 2023 Geneva Conference
- Bills
- Budgets
- 2023 Pakistan Digital Census
- Pakistan–Turkey Free Trade Agreement
- Chief Ministership of Shehbaz Sharif
- Provincial governments
- Model Town operation
- Daanish Schools
- Punjab Educational Endowment Fund
- Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park
- Dolphin Force
- Protection of Women against Violence Bill, 2015
- Orange Line (Lahore Metro)
- Multan Metrobus
- Punjab Land Records Authority
- Punjab Food Authority
- Information Technology University
- Punjab Forensic Science Agency
- Lahore Waste Management Company
Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Pakistan since 2024, being the only person to hold it for two consecutive terms, having previously been in the role between 2022 and 2023. He has also served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and chief minister of Punjab three times, spanning over 12 years, making him the longest-serving person in the role.
Sharif was elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1988 and later to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1990, when his brother became head of the conservative Islami Jamhuri Ittihad (IJI). He was re-elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1993 and appointed 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, Sharif and his brother were arrested and exiled the next year to Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudis, returning to Pakistan in 2007. Sharif was elected chief minister for a second term after the PML(N)'s victory in Punjab in the 2008 general election. He was elected as chief minister of Punjab for the third time after provincial election in 2013. Sharif was nominated as the president of the PML(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 general election and elected as prime minister in April 2022 after the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan was passed. After the PML(N) won a plurality in the 2024 general election, Sharif became prime minister with a coalition government.