1. Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif was born on 23 September 1951 and is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the 20th prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024, having previously been in the role between April 2022 to August 2023.
Shehbaz Sharif has served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League and chief minister of Punjab three times, making him the longest-serving person in the role.
Shehbaz Sharif was again elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1993 and named leader of the opposition.
Shehbaz Sharif was elected as chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, for the first time on 20 February 1997.
Shehbaz Sharif was appointed chief minister for a second term after the PML-N's victory in Punjab province in the 2008 Pakistani general election.
Shehbaz Sharif was elected as chief minister of Punjab for the third time in the 2013 general election and served his term until his party's defeat in the 2018 general election.
Shehbaz Sharif was nominated as the leader of the opposition after the 2018 election, and elected prime minister in 2022 after the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan was passed in the National Assembly.
Shehbaz Sharif was born on 23 September 1951 in Lahore, West Punjab.
Shehbaz Sharif's father, Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, and eventually settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Shehbaz Sharif has two brothers, Abbas Sharif and Nawaz Sharif.
Nawaz's wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, was the First Lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz Shehbaz Sharif is the current Chief Minister of Punjab.
Shehbaz Sharif attended St Anthony High School, Lahore and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Government College University, Lahore.
Shehbaz Sharif can speak Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, English, German and Arabic.
Shehbaz Sharif began his political career after getting elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-122 as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad in the 1988 general election.
Shehbaz Sharif secured 22,372 votes and defeated a candidate of Pakistan People's Party.
Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-124 as a candidate of IJI in 1990 general election.
Shehbaz Sharif received 26,408 votes and defeated a candidate of Pakistan Democratic Alliance.
Shehbaz Sharif vacated the Provincial Punjab Assembly seat to retain his National Assembly seat.
Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-125 as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League in 1993 general election.
Shehbaz Sharif vacated the National Assembly seat and retained his Provincial Punjab Assembly seat.
Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-125 as a candidate of PML-N in 1997 general election.
Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the Chief Minister of Punjab for the first time and was sworn in as 13th Chief Minister of Punjab on 20 February 1997.
Shehbaz Sharif undertook several development projects in Lahore and launched a crackdown on criminals across the province to maintain law and order in the province.
Shehbaz Sharif held his office until 12 October 1999 when was removed from the post of Chief Minister in the 1999 Pakistani coup d'etat.
In 1999, a complainant Saeeduddin lodged FIR and accused Shehbaz Sharif of allowing the Sabzazar police, as the Chief Minister of the Punjab, to kill his son along with other men in a fake encounter.
Shehbaz Sharif was in the exile at that time and failed to show-up to the court.
In 2004, Shehbaz Sharif attempted to return to Pakistan to appear before the court, but was forcibly deported back to Saudi Arabia.
In September 2007, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan ordered police to arrest Shehbaz Sharif based on a 2003 arrest warrant.
Shehbaz Sharif denied ordering the alleged killings and said the charges against him were politically motivated.
Shehbaz Sharif further said that in 2004, he had landed at the Lahore Airport wanting to appear before the court, but was sent back to Saudi Arabia by the government in violation of the orders of the Supreme Court.
Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected as the president of PML-N for a second term in August 2006 and returned to Pakistan along with Nawaz Sharif in November 2007.
Shehbaz Sharif was ineligible to take part in the 2008 general election due to Sabzazar case, but a few months later he was acquitted by the court.
Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab unopposed from Constituency PP-48 as a candidate of PML-N in the by-election held in June 2008.
Later, in June 2008, while holding the Assembly seat from Constituency PP-48, Shehbaz Sharif contested for a seat in the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-10.
Shehbaz Sharif was elected unopposed but resigned from this seat due to a dispute regarding his eligibility to serve as chief minister.
In 2013 general election, Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from three Constituencies PP-159, PP-161 and PP-247, as a PML-N candidate.
Shehbaz Sharif chose to retain his Provincial Assembly seat PP-159 and was re-elected as chief minister of Punjab for the third time, receiving 300 votes in the 371-member Provincial Assembly.
In 2016, Shehbaz Sharif was elected unopposed as the president of Punjab chapter of PML-N in intra-party elections.
On 29 July 2017, following the disqualification of outgoing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the Panama Papers case decision, Shehbaz was named leader of the PML-N and their candidate for the office of prime minister.
Later, Shehbaz Sharif decided to complete his tenure as the chief minister of Punjab until the next general election.
In December 2017, Shehbaz Sharif was named as the candidate of PML-N for the office of prime minister in the 2018 general election.
In February 2018, Shehbaz Sharif was appointed the interim president of the PML-N.
Shehbaz Sharif was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-132 in 2018 Pakistani general election.
On 10 April 2022, Shehbaz Sharif was nominated as a candidate for Prime Minister by opposition parties following the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan after the 2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis.
Shehbaz Sharif was elected prime minister on 11 April 2022.
Shehbaz Sharif took the oath of office on the same day, administered by the Chairman of the Senate, Sadiq Sanjrani, acting for President Arif Alvi, who was on medical leave after complaining of "discomfort".
On 3 March 2024, Shehbaz Sharif was re-elected as prime minister of Pakistan for a second term, as he received 201 votes against 92 votes for PTI-backed Omar Ayub Khan.
Shehbaz Sharif attempted to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the largest political party in Pakistan.
Shehbaz Sharif's government saw the initiation of Operation Azm-e-Istehkam and attempted to pass new constitutional amendments making changes to the Judiciary of Pakistan, though opposition groups alleged that their members were abducted and 'coercive tactics' were used by his government to attempt to pass the amendments.
Shehbaz Sharif's government continued the unofficial ban on social media platform Twitter imposed by the Kakar caretaker government, and installed an internet firewall.
In November 2024, Shehbaz Sharif ordered action against the 2024 Final Call protests of PTI.
Shehbaz Sharif initiated ambitious infrastructure projects in Punjab and was noted for his efficient governance.
In 2025, Shehbaz Sharif was recognized among the world's 500 most influential Muslims by The Muslim 500, an annual publication by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan.
In 2003, Shehbaz Sharif married his third wife, author and artist Tehmina Durrani.
David Rose claimed that former chief minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif used the aid funds to send one million pounds through money laundering to his frontman Aftab Mehmood, a British citizen of Pakistani descent, who then gave the money to Shahbaz Sharif's family.
Salman Shahbaz the son of Shehbaz Sharif later refuted this information.
Shahbaz Shehbaz Sharif was persuaded by his legal staff that there was no use in submitting more paperwork as the paper had already agreed to apologise and remove the defamatory and misleading piece.
Daily Mail publishers and Shehbaz Sharif's lawyers signed an agreement of settlement with Tomlin Order in the second week of December 2022, after which Daily Mail removed the defamatory article and apologized to the prime minister and his son-in-law.