Sharif family explained

Sharif family
Type:	Political family
Origin:	Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, British India
Region:	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Members:	Muhammad Sharif Nawaz Sharif Shehbaz Sharif Kalsoom Nawaz Tehmina Durrani Hamza Shahbaz Maryam Nawaz Abbas Sharif Hussain Nawaz Hassan Sharif
Traditions:	Sunni Islam
Estate:	Ittefaq Group Sharif Group

The Sharif family (Punjabi, Urdu: شریف خاندان) is a Pakistani political family based in Lahore, Punjab. They belong to the Bhat Kashmiri caste which is a large community living in many districts of Punjab. They have had two members of the family that became prime ministers of Pakistan them being Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif respectively.

Muhammad Sharif, the father of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, migrated from Jati Umra, Amritsar District (now in Tarn Taran district, India, after the creation of Pakistan in 1947). He was a businessman who founded the Ittefaq Group and Sharif Group in 1939.^[1] Muhammad's other son Shehbaz Sharif currently serving as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2024.

Family members

First Generation

• Muhammad Sharif, father of Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif.
  • Begum Shamim Akhtar, wife of Muhammad Sharif and mother of Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and Abbas Sharif.^[2] She died on 22 November 2020.

Second Generation

• Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif, was the wife of Nawaz Sharif, and was the First Lady of Pakistan in three non-consecutive terms from 1990 until 1993, from 1996 until 1998 and from 2013 to 2017. She died in London in 2018 after battling cancer.^[3]
• Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan and former Chief Minister of Punjab.
  • Begum Nusrat Shahbaz, first wife of Shahbaz Sharif.
  • Tehmina Durrani, second wife of Shahbaz Sharif.
• Abbas Sharif, a Pakistani businessman and brother of Nawaz Sharif and Shabaz Sharif.^[4] He died on 11 January 2013, after slipping and falling on an electric heater, which electrocuted him and caused a heart attack.^[5]
  • Sabiha Abbas, wife of Abbas Sharif.^[4]

Third Generation

• Hassan Nawaz Sharif, son of Nawaz Sharif.^[3]
• Hussain Nawaz Sharif, son of Nawaz Sharif.^[3], a businessman,^[6] he resides at the Sharif Villa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where his father lived during his time in exile.^[7]
• Maryam Nawaz Sharif, daughter of Nawaz Sharif, and is an active politician in Pakistan. She is married to Muhammad Safdar Awan, a former member of Pakistan's national assembly, and captain in the Pakistani army. She ran elections campaigns for Pakistan Muslim League (N) in the 2013 Pakistani general election, and the 2018 Pakistani general election. In July 2018, she was sentenced to seven years in prison, along with a £2 million fine on corruption charges in the Avenfield reference case. On 19 September 2018, the Islamabad High Court suspended her sentence.^{[8] [9]}
• Asma Nawaz Sharif, daughter of Nawaz Sharif.^[10]
• Rabia Imran, daughter of Shahbaz Sharif.^[11]
• Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, son of Shahbaz Sharif, leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Member of the National Assembly^[12]
• Suleman Shahbaz, son of Shahbaz Sharif, former CEO of Sharif Group.^{[13] [14]}

Other relatives

• Safdar Awan, husband of Maryam Nawaz Sharif.
• Abid Sher Ali, nephew of Nawaz Sharif.
• The Great Gama, Abdul Qadir, grandfather-in-law of Nawaz Sharif.
• Ishaq Dar, father-in-law of Asma Nawaz Sharif.
• Mohsin Latif, nephew of Kalsoom Nawaz^[15]
• Bilal Yasin, nephew of Kalsoom Nawaz.

Wealth

The Sharif family owns Ittefaq Group and Sharif Group. The village Jati Umrah in Lahore, is also partially owned by the Sharif family.

According to the book Capitalism's Achilles Heel by Raymond W Baker, former PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif made financial gains of $418 million during his two terms as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The book is a report on the corruption done by politics' most dominant mafias/families in history, which includes the Sharif family as well. It talks about how they accumulated their factories, properties and wealth.^[16]

See also

• Sharif
• Mian
• Raiwind
• List of political families

Further reading

• Web site: Government of Punjab, Pakistan . punjab.gov . 4 September 2012.
• Web site: Punjab Assembly Website . pap.gov . 4 September 2012.
• Web site: Panama Scandal-Big Players On Screen, Pakistan. PowerPlay.pk. 6 April 2016. 5 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160405234523/http://www.powerplay.pk/news/panama-scandal-big-players-screen-2/.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mian Sharif: businessman, kingmaker and philanthropist . . 31 October 2004 . Staff Report . 2 September 2012.
2. Web site: Sharifs seek NAB cases quashed. 18 October 2011. 5 April 2013. Dawn. Herald.
3. Web site: Kulsoom vows to return in a few days . . 11 September 2007 . 9 September 2012.
4. Web site: Sharif Family . GlobalSecurity.org . 2 September 2012.
5. Web site: Nawaz Sharif's brother passes away. 11 January 2013. 14 January 2013. The Express Tribune.
6. Web site: PM's son Hussain Nawaz flies off to Qatari capital. Mohammad. Asghar. 7 July 2017.
7. News: IP project in jeopardy: US threatens curbs if Pakistan pursues Iran deal, says PM. The Express Tribune. 5 August 2013. 5 August 2013.
8. Web site: The Rebirth of Maryam Nawaz Sharif . . 30 March 2012 . Taseer . Sherbano . 9 September 2012 . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120608060250/http://www.newsweekpakistan.com/features/951 .
9. Web site: The rebirth of Maryam Nawaz Sharif. . Taseer . Sherbano . 9 September 2012.
10. Web site: Here is what the Panamagate JIT report says about financial assets of Kulsoom Nawaz and Asma Nawaz. ARY News. 14 July 2018. 4 December 2023.
11. Web site: Bakery tortures of employee: CM's son-in-law sent on judicial remand . Daily Times . 21 October 2012 . Malik . Asad . 23 October 2012.
12. Web site: Court orders newspaper ad for Hamza appearance . Daily Times . 8 September 2012 . Malik . Asad . 23 October 2012.
13. Web site: Suleman Shahbaz declared proclaimed offender in money laundering case. Bilal. Rana. 2019-10-28. DAWN.COM. en. 2019-11-01.
14. Web site: Redc Lums. www.facebook.com. en. 2019-11-01.
15. Web site: Kalsoom Nawaz' brother passes away. 21 January 2016.
16. Book: Baker , Raymond . Capitalism's Achilles heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-market System . 2005 . John Wiley and Sons . 978-0-471-64488-0 . 82–83. registration. 4 September 2012.