Nawaz Sharif's life and career

Snippets from the three-time rise and fall of the beleaguered leader

1976: Joins the Pakistan Muslim League (PML)

1981: Joins the Punjab provincial cabinet as finance minister, becoming Punjab's chief minister in 1985

1990: First elected prime minister

1993: Removed as prime minister by Pakistan's president but reinstated by Supreme Court. Resigns under pressure and PML-N loses elections

1997: Elected prime minister for second time

1999: Overthrown in a military coup by Gen Pervez Musharraf. Convicted of corruption

2000: Allowed to go into exile in Saudi Arabia

2007: Returns from exile as part of a political deal that ended Musharraf's military rule

2008: Loses election to Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto

2013: Elected prime minister for third time

Apr 4, 2016: Panama Papers show involvement of Sharif's family in offshore companies including two used to buy luxury homes in London

Nov 2: Supreme Court agrees to set up a judicial commission to probe corruption allegations

July 28, 2017: SC declares Sharif disqualified from office for not declaring income from a company in United Arab Emirates, which was not in original Panama Papers revelations. The court also orders the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to open a criminal trial into ownership of the London flats

April 13, 2018: SC rules Sharif is banned from political office

for life July 6: NAB court gives Sharif and daughter Maryam 10 and 7 years in prison.