Sharif family

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Sharif Family
Ethnicity Primarily Muslim
Kashmiri-Punjabi
Current region Pakistan Lahore, Pakistan
Place of origin Jati Umra, Amritsar, India[1]
Members Muhammad Sharif
Nawaz Sharif
Shahbaz Sharif
Abbas Sharif
Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif
Hamza Shahbaz Sharif
Maryam Nawaz
Asma Nawaz Sharif
Salman Shahbaz Sharif
Estate Ittefaq Group
Raiwind Palace
Sharif Medical City
Hudaibiya Paper Mills

One of the powerful families of Pakistan. the Sharif family (Urdu: شريف خاندان‎) is a Pakistani political family which has dominated in the politics of Pakistan for much of Pakistan's political history since 1983.[2] The Sharif family is currently the First Family of Pakistan. The family is of Kashmiri-Punjabi origin, settled in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan and used the surname Mian.[2] Muhammad Sharif, the father of Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, migrated from Jati Umra, Amritsar, after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. He was a businessman who founded the Ittefaq Group in 1939 in Lahore.[3]

In Pakistani politics

The Sharif family has been actively involved in the politics since the nationalization of their factories during the régime of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Nawaz Sharif is the incumbent prime minister of Pakistan. He currently heads the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), a center-right, conservative political party, one of the largest in Pakistan.[4][5] Sharif previously served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1990 to July 1993, and from February 1997 to October 12, 1999.[6][7] Sharif rose to prominence as part of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's military regime in the 1980s under the wing of Governor of Punjab Ghulam Jilani Khan. He was appointed Chief Minister of Punjab by Zia in 1985. After Zia's death and Benazir Bhutto's election as prime minister in 1988, he developed an affiliation to Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), a right-wing alliance formed against Pakistan People's Party in 1988. Also in 1988, Nawaz Sharif was elected chief minister of the Punjab.[8]

Shahbaz Sharif is the current Chief Minister of the Punjab,[9] and also held the position from 1997 to 1999.[2]

The family has influence mainly in Punjab province and their third generation is also becoming involved in Pakistani politics.[2]

List of family members

First Generation
  • Muhammad Sharif, a Pakistani businessman and father of Nawaz Sharif and Shabaz Sharif.[3]
    • Shamim Akhtar, wife of Muhammad Sharif, and mother of Nawaz and Shabaz Sharif.[10]
Second Generation
Third Generation

Wealth

The Sharif family owns Ittefaq Group, a multimillion-dollar steel conglomerate.[18] In 2005, the Daily Pakistan reported that the family is the fourth wealthiest in Pakistan with an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion.[19] The Sharif family expanded its steel business empire by employing state of the art technology.[20] They also own the extravagant Raiwind Palace in Lahore.[21] The Panama Papers showed that there was a lot under the belt including numerous offshore companies of Maryam Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz and Hasan Nawaz. As of today[when?] the Sharif family holds a number of companies in Pakistan that includes[citation needed]

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Judiciary issues

In March 2000, three main cases were filed against the Sharif family in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills default case in Attock NAB Court. Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif were accused of misuse of authority and of wealth accumulation beyond their means.[22] In addition to Senator Ishaq Dar,[22] nine members of the Sharif family were named:

  • Muhammad Sharif, father of Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif, husband of Shamim Akhtar
  • Shamim Akhtar, wife of Muhammad Sharif, mother of Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif
    • Nawaz Sharif
      • Hussain Nawaz, son of Nawaz Sharif
      • Maryam Nawaz, daughter of Nawaz Sharif
    • Shahbaz Sharif, brother of Nawaz Sharif and Chief minister of the Punjab
      • Hamza Shahbaz, son of Shahbaz Sharif and member of the National Assembly
    • Abbas Sharif, brother of Nawaz Sharif
      • Shamim Akhtar, wife of Abbas Sharif (Sabiha Abbas)

In 2008, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reopened cases of corruption and money laundering against the family in reference to its Raiwind assets, Hudaibiya Paper Mills and Ittefaq Foundry.[2][23]

Ittefaq Group had obtained a loan totalling Rs 3.11 billion from eight different banks during 1982 and 1998. After selling four units the Group, a default loan-amount Rs 6 billion was recovered, but mark-up was yet to be recovered as per rules. On 7 November 2014, Lahore High Court (LHC), on the petition of a consortium led by the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), directed Ittefaq to pay mark-up of Rs 3.5 billion against the loan from the consortium.[24] However, the Sharif family's spokesman said that the group had already paid the mark-up and "the factual position was that all banks had been repaid hundred percent of the loan’s required amount", and "it was for the first time in the history of Pakistan that any family or industrial unit had returned its complete loan, along with its markup, without getting it waived at all."[13]

In December 2000, 18 members of the family were exiled to Saudi Arabia, after a deal with the government of Pervez Musharraf.[2]

Family tree


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See also

References

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