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13 unusual facts about Nawaz Sharif


Abdul Ghafoor Khan Mayo

His intimate relationship with Nawaz Sharif is an open secret that is why he is tolerated by party leadership.

Once from Nawaz Sharif home constituency Model Town, and later on from other home constituency of Nawaz Sharif that is Raiwind

Al-Khalid tank

Al-Khalid was revealed on 17th July, 1991, by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, along with the then Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, Mirza Aslam Beg, in a ceremony held at the Heavy Rebuild Factory (HRF), Taxila.

Attabad Lake

Attabad has been visited by both current and former Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gillani and Nawaz Sharif, and by the Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Sharif announced Rs100 million of aid for the victims from the Punjab government and Rs0.5 million for the relatives of those who died in the landslide.

Jinnahpur

Despite the party's strong commitment to the Pakistani state, the government of Nawaz Sharif chose to use it as the basis for the military operation against the MQM, known as Operation Clean-up.

Marvi Memon

She functioned as Special Envoy to the Pakistani public on behalf of Pakistani steel magnate and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the current President of PML-N.

Mian Muhammad Azhar

Being a close aide of Nawaz Sharif in past, he was also awarded the NA ticket from NA-95, the seat vacated by Nawaz Sharif after the 1988 polls.

Mohammad Sarwar

Soon after PML (N) chief Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as prime minister, he showed his intentions for becoming governor of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab.

Moinuddin Haider

After retirement in March 1997, he was installed as the Governor of Sindh province by the Nawaz Sharif government.

Newsweek Pakistan

They were returning from an interview with former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

PNS Mehran attack

Nawaz Sharif said the incident was not an ordinary act of terrorism and added that the roots of Pakistan were being shattered through terrorism.

Raja Muhammad Basharat

In 2003, after the exile of party leader Nawaz Sharif, he became a part of the remodeled Pakistan Muslim League along with a majority of other political leaders.

Ziauddin Butt

He was nominated for the post of Pakistan Army chief on 12 Oct 1999 by then-Prime minister Nawaz Sharif after the dismissal of General Pervez Musharraf, who had begun a coup against the government.


1993 in Pakistan

While Pakistan moved closer to peaceful negotiation with Afghanistan in 1993, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly of Pakistan and dismissed the Nawaz government.

Provisional Constitutional Order

Political tensions arising after the border incidents with India that nearly pushed the two countries at the brink of the war, Chairman Joint chiefs and chief of army staff General Pervez Musharraf immediately imposed the martial law against conservative Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on 14 October 1999.

Saggy Tahir

Tahir held that Pakistani Americans should stop hoping for the return of Pakistan's ex-Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto (now deceased) and Nawaz Sharif (who was exiled to Saudi Arabia after Pervez Musharraf's coup).

Science and technology in Pakistan

Pakistan under the leadership of Prime minister Navaz Scharief, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), conducted five simultaneous tests at the Chagai Hills under codename Chagai-I on May 28, 1998.