Mian Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif ( Urdu میان محمد نواز شریف; born December 25, 1949 in Lahore ) is a Pakistani political leader of the Muslim League PML -N and head of the industrial group Ittefaq, which belongs to the politically influential Sharif family. He was already November 1990 to July 1993 and February 1997 to October 1999 Prime Minister of Pakistan. In June 2013 he was re-elected Prime Minister.
Life
In October 1990, dominated by the Muslim League party alliance Islamic Democratic Alliance won under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif's parliamentary elections in Pakistan against the PPP of Benazir Bhutto. Nawaz Sharif became prime minister and returned to Islamisierungspolitik Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.
In April 1993, Nawaz Sharif was dismissed by President Ishaq Khan. Benazir Bhutto was Prime Minister again. In the parliamentary elections in 1997, after the dismissal of Benazir Bhutto, the Muslim League won under Nawaz Sharif an absolute majority. On 12 October 1999 Nawaz Sharif was deposed by the chief of staff of the Army Pervez Musharraf in a bloodless coup.
In December 2000, Pervez Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif agreed with the mediation of Saudi Arabia and Lebanon Altpremier Rafik al -Hariri that Sharif should leave for ten years Pakistan towards Saudi Arabia. In return should be dropped charges against Nawaz Sharif as treason, tax evasion and corruption.
In the parliamentary election of 2002 was one of the President General Pervez Musharraf related elimination of the Muslim League, the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid -e -Azam (PML -Q) strongest faction. The Muslim League Nawaz Sharif (PML -N) was only a splinter party.
After Sharif was at first, then went after the revolution into exile in Saudi Arabia to London, he and his brother Shahbaz Sharif were permitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in August 2007 to return to Pakistan. This way he perceived. However, he was taken on 10 September 2007 already upon his arrival at the airport in Islamabad on charges of corruption in "protective custody" and immediately deported to Saudi Arabia.
On November 25, however, he returned to Pakistan and was greeted upon his arrival in Lahore thousands followers. The next day he had to register as a candidate for the parliamentary election on 8 January 2008. He also ruled out a collaboration with Pervez Musharraf, as long as this president is.
In the following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto shifted to the February 18, 2008 parliamentary elections, Sharif's PML -N has established itself as the second largest party related even before Musharraf Muslim League PML -Q. The attempt to form together with the Pakistan People's Party a coalition government failed after five months and one week after the resignation of President Musharraf, as Sharif aufkündigte the support of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
The conflict between the opposition leader Sharif and the Pakistani government was exacerbated when, in February 2009, the Supreme Court imposed a policy prohibition against Sharif. There were violent protests by supporters of Sharif in the provincial capital Lahore.
In March 2009, called Sharif's Muslim League and numerous lawyers on multi-day protests against government policies. In a " Long March " on the capital Islamabad should be demonstrated for an independent judiciary in Pakistan. It came on March 15, 2009 in Lahore serious riots between supporters of Sharif and the police. Messages that Sharif was put under house arrest to prevent his participation in the rallies, not confirmed. After the Pakistani government had given the main demand of the opposition and announced the reinstatement of several judges, including the former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Sharif said the " Long March " from.
In the parliamentary elections in Pakistan on May 11, 2013 Nawaz Sharif reached as the leading candidate for the Pakistan Muslim League ( Nawaz ) (PML -N) for many observers expected at least 130 of the 371 parliamentary seats to be filled. He was particularly successful in his home province of Punjab. On June 5, 2013, was re-elected Prime Minister.