Who is Nawaz Sharif?

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is the current Prime Minster of Pakistan; he is in office since 2013. He was born on 25 December 1949 in Lahore, Pakistan.  He is credited with carrying out nuclear tests in May 1998 in response to the Indian nuclear tests, despite immense global pressure not to do it. In 1999, Sharif was overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf in a military coup and was tried on charges of hijacking and terrorism.His father founded the Ittefaq Group of Industries which is today a large conglomerate dealing in steel, sugar, paper, and textiles.  The military court quickly convicted him in a speedy trial and gave him a life sentence.  When he first became the Prime Minister in 1990 he attempted to create an economy based on privatization and economic liberalization in order to pave the way for Pakistan’s rapid industrial development. In 1999, he was deposed from the office in a coup by the then Army Chief Pervez Musharraf and sent to exile in Saudi Arabia. However, Nawaz Sharif came nack to Pakistan in 2007 and eventually regained power in 2013.

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