Highs and lows in Sharif’s career

1981: Nawaz Sharif 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 the president. He is reinstated by Supreme Court but then resigns under pressure and his party loses elections to the Pakistan People’s Party of Benazir Bhutto.

1997: Elected prime minister for second time.

1999: Overthrown in a military coup by General Pervez Musharraf. After the coup, he was convicted of corruption and given a life sentence for hijacking over an incident when he ordered Musharraf ’s plane not to land in Islamabad. 2000-2007: Allowed to go into exile in Saudi Arabia in 2000 amid reports of a deal with the military.

2007: Returns from exile to contest elections the next year as part of a political deal that ended Musharraf ’s military rule.

2008: Loses election to the party of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated ahead of the polls.

2013: Elected prime minister for third time. April 4, 2016: The leaked Panama Papers show involvement of Sharif’s family in offshore companies. October 28, 2016: Imran Khan threatens to paralyse the capital, Islamabad, unless demands for an independent investigation into the Panama revelations are met.

November 2, 2016: The Supreme Court agrees to set up a judicial commission to probe corruption allegations against Nawaz Sharif.

July 28, 2017: The Supreme Court declares Sharif disqualified from office for not declaring income from a company in the UAE. The court also orders the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to open a criminal trial into ownership of the London flats along with several other Panama Papers revelations.

April 13, 2018: The Supreme Court further rules Nawaz Sharif is banned from political office for life. July 6, 2018: The NAB court convicts Sharif of corruption and sentences him in absentia to 10 years in prison. September 19, 2018: An Islamabad High Court bench ordered the release of Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, Maryam, suspending their prison sentences in a corruption case pending an appeal hearing —

The prosecution has failed to show the properties belong to Nawaz Sharif. It also failed to prove how was Maryam Nawaz sentenced under the same chargesheet which convicted Nawaz Sharif

Athar Minallah, Judge