Nawaz Sharif (born 1949) led his party to victory and became the prime minister of Pakistan in 1990. Supporters claim his political success lay in his business background. While most of Pakistan's pol...
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Nov 25 (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz
Sharif arrived in Lahore on Sunday from Saudi Arabia, ending
seven years of exile. Here are five facts on Sharif: * Born into a Kashmiri fa...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan's
head of state Pervez Musharraf have long been enemies since the
former appointed the latter chief of general ...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif
Thursday filed a petition in the country's Supreme Court seeking a
directive to end the exile imposed on him ...
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Islamabad/Riyadh (dpa) - Exiled Pakistani former prime minister
Nawaz Sharif will return home to oppose President Pervez Musharraf
despite calls in Riyadh for him to abide b...
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Islamabad (dpa) - A Pakistani court on Friday issued an arrest
warrant for the brother of exiled opposition leader and former prime
minister Nawaz Sharif, three days before ...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the
release on bail of a staunch critic of President General Pervez
Musharraf and a senior opposition leader who...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Hundreds of jubilant supporters of a top
Pakistani opposition leader Saturday chanted slogans against
President Pervez Musharraf as they greeted him on rel...
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Islamabad (dpa) - A Pakistani judge on Saturday refused to issue
an arrest warrant for opposition leader and ex-prime minister Nawaz
Sharif in corruption cases, removing the...
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Karachi, Pakistan (dpa) - Pakistan's former prime minister and
opposition leader Benazir Bhutto landed in her homeland Thursday and
ended more than eight years of self-impos...
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