Maryam Nawaz Sharif Biography

The Sharif circle of relatives is the most powerful and impact in Pakistan. Maryam Nawaz Sharif is an outstanding and gorgeous Pakistani politician, She is the daughter of former  Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.  She is the vice chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League N. Maryam was taken into consideration as an essential determine after Nawaz Sharif. Her view is extensively reputable within the politics of Muslim League N. She has additionally worked as the Chairperson of the high Minister kids application. She was also in charge of the Election marketing campaign of Muslim League N in 2012. Sharif’s family started out an enterprise in Pakistan with the call of the Ittefaq group in Lahore.

Personal Details:

Early Life:

Maryam Nawaz was born on October 28, 1973, in Punjab’s capital. The age of Maryam Nawaz is 50. However, she appears younger than her actual age. She and her father, Nawaz Sharif, are very close. Her father, Nawaz Sharif, was the Chief Minister of Punjab and later the Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, hence she grew up in a political family.

Education:

She linked the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Lahore for her early study. She registered at King Edward Medical College in the late 1980s because she desired to come a doctor, but she was compulsory to discontinue the school before reaping her quality on account of a scandal about immoral enrolment. The Lahore High Court queried her M.A. in English Literature and Ph.D. in Political Science standards in 2014. It wasn’t seeming if her Ph.D. was an authentic scope or an honorary individual. She just recognized bearing a college degree in English literature in 2018 while presenting records to the Pakistani Election Commission.

Family:

Maryam was born into a famous political family of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). Her father, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, served as the Ex-Prime minister of Pakistan thrice but is currently embroiled in several cases of corruption and money laundering. During the course of these cases, Maryam’s father, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, fell ill and had to travel to England for medical treatment.

Kalsoom Nawaz was Maryam’s mother who served as President of PMLN from 1999-2001. She was also elected as a Member of the National Assembly from the NA-120 constituency of Lahore. Unfortunately, Kalsoom Nawaz passed away on 11 September 2018 due to a serious illness at the age of 68. Maryam has two brothers, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz, who have settled in London and are running their businesses successfully. She also has a sister named Asma Nawaz Sharif.

Maryam got married to Captain Safdar Awan in 1992 at the age of 19 becoming Maryam Safdar. Safdar Awan, who had served as the security officer of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, retired from the Pakistan Army as a Captain and then worked in civil services as a bureaucrat before entering politics. Maryam has three children, with her son Junaid recently married and her daughters Mahnoor and Mehr-un-Nisa. 

She is known for her impeccable fashion sense and is often spotted wearing traditional Pakistani attire at public events.

Maryam’s uncle, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, served as the Chief Minister of Punjab three times and became the Prime Minister of Pakistan on 11 April 2022. Her first cousin, Mian Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, is the Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly.

Political Career:

She announced her plan to get into politics, and Nawaz Sharif authorized it in November 2011. She decided to speak at educational establishments during her run for office about women’s rights and education.

She got into politics in 2012, and in 2013 she was chosen to lead the Prime Minister’s Youth Program. She resigned from her position in 2014 after being embroiled in corruption cases. She was jailed to seven years in prison and a $2 million fine for corruption in the Avenfield case.

January 2012 saw her tweet “I’m just supporting Nawaz Sharif keep an eye on their cyber cell. I have no plans to play an active role in electoral or governmental politics “. During the 2013 Pakistani general election, she was given control of Nawaz Sharif’s campaign, and she reportedly played a significant part in it.

She was seen as Nawaz Sharif’s “apparent heir” and the Pakistan Muslim League N’s future leader.”

She was chosen to lead the Prime Minister’s Youth Program in November 2013. Nevertheless, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) challenged her appointment, calling it an example of nepotism, and filed a lawsuit against the Lahore High Court in October 2014. She was charged by PTI with stealing money from the government to bolster her own reputation. The federal government was mandated to dismiss her by the Lahore High Court on November 12, 2014. The following day, Maryam gave her resignation as chairperson.

She started getting involved in politics in 2017 after her father, Nawaz Sharif, was found guilty and removed from office by Pakistan’s Supreme Court for his role in the money laundering scandal involving the Panama Papers and his work in the United Arab Emirates. At the by-elections in Constituency NA-120, she ran a campaign for her mother, Kulsoom Nawaz.

In June 2018, she received a PML-N ticket to run in the 2018 general election from the constituencies of PP-173 and NA-127 (Lahore-V). She was found guilty of corruption in the National Accountability Bureau’s Avenfield reference and given a 7-year prison sentence in July. She was thereby prohibited from running for office for ten years. In response, Ali Pervaiz and Malik Irfan Shafi Khokhar were nominated by the PML-N to run in the NA-127 and PP-173 congressional districts, respectively, in the 2018 elections. In her affidavit from 2018, Maryam listed 845 million rupees as the value of her assets. She was found guilty of corruption, but the Islamabad High Court overturned the decision on September 29, 2022, making her eligible to run for office.

In connection with the Chaudhry Sugar Mills corruption allegations, she was taken into custody by the National Accountability Bureau Lahore on August 8, 2019. For the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Corruption allegations, she was granted bail by the Lahore High Court in November 2019.

On January 3, 2023, Maryam Nawaz was appointed senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). President of the party Shehbaz Sharif gave his approval to the choice. Additionally, she was given the responsibility of reforming and reorganizing the party at all levels and was given the title of “Chief Organizer” for the organization.

In 2013, Maryam Nawaz was selected as the coordinator of the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme, which was aimed at providing Pakistani youth access to economic opportunities. This was the beginning of Maryam Nawaz’s political career. Later, she joined the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party, which was started by her father Nawaz Sharif.

Panama Papers case:

Maryam was listed in the Panama Papers, which were made public on April 3, 2016, along with her two brothers, Hussain and Hassan Nawaz. Records found by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists listed Maryam as the proprietor of the British Virgin Islands-based companies Nielsen Enterprises Limited and Nescoll Limited, as well as allegedly the proprietor of the properties in the United Kingdom owned jointly by her brothers. Maryam responded by denying owning any businesses or properties outside of Pakistan and asserting, “My brother has appointed me a trustee in one of his firms which only authorizes me to deliver assets to my brother Hussain’s family/children if necessary.”

Audio leaks:

Maryam Nawaz’s audio recordings have been released numerous times throughout the years. The most recent audio leak occurred on September 24, 2022, and it features her uncle Shahbaz Sharif, the Pakistani Prime Minister at the time, chatting to an unknown man. On the tape, the unidentified man is heard informing Shahbaz Sharif, Maryam’s uncle, that Maryam is requesting that an Indian power plant be brought for her son-in-company. law Following that, Shahbaz Sharif informs the unnamed guy about the difficulties associated with importing a plant from India because Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, would use it against his administration.

Achievements:

Among the most famous members is identified as Maryam Nawaz. During the NA-120 Electorate by-elections, she served as Kulsoom Nawaz’s campaigner. In March 2017, she was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 Women. In 2017, she was listed on The New York Times’ list of 11 Powerful Women Around the World.

Social Media Accounts:

Maryam Nawaz has charming mannerisms, is active on social media, and is creative. She shares each and every occasion. Maryam Nawaz has 8M followers on Twitter,  Instagram 533k followers, and 2.2M followers on Facebook.