Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The Rise and The Fall of The Sharif

 Former Chief Min. of Punjab Nawaz Sharif (C) & others during a ceremony marking 2nd anniv. of Pres. Zia ul Haq's death in the plane crash. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)


 Ex-Punjab Chief Min. Mian Nawaz Sharif, Islamic People's Party ldr., during IJI election campaign copter arrival. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)


 PM Nawaz Sharif (C) on grounds of PM's residence during TIME interview, w. incidents. (recalling for new elections & dissolving Parliament). (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)


 Pakistan Muslim League ldr. former PM Nawaz Sharif on phone during the parliamentary election campaign, seeking to return as PM. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

 PM Mian Nawaz Sharif (L) conferring w. hovering secy-type aide, persuing papers at his desk. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)


 PM Mian Nawaz Sharif shaking hands w. Afghan Hezb-i-Islami's Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (R) during mtg. w. mujahedin leaders (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)


 LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Security officials escort deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C) to his residence in the Pakistani city of Lahore, 16 December 1999. A Pakistan court released Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif for a family ceremony after the death of his mother-in-law. Sharif and his brother along with other senior officials have been detained since a military coup in the country on 12 October this year. AFP PHOTO/ Str (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)




LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Pakistan's deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (L) addresses his family members along with his brother Shahbaz Sharif (R) for the first time since his detention, in his home town Lahore, 16 December 1999. A Pakistan court released Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif for a family ceremony after the death of his mother-in-law. Sharif and his brother along with other senior officials have been detained after the military coup on 12 October this year. AFP PHOTO/ Str (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)


 LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Pakistan's deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) hugs his father Mian Mohammad Sharif first time since his detention after a military coup, in his home town Lahore, 16 December 1999. A Pakistan court released Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif for a family ceremony after the death of his mother-in-law. Sharif and his brother along with other senior officials have been detained after a military coup in the country on 12 October this year. AFP PHOTO/ Str (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)


 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: Sacked Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) watches President Ghulam Ishaq Khan's speech as his former minister Sardar Mehtab Abbasi looks on at prime minister house 19 April 1993. Khan dismissed Sharif accusing him of nepotism, mismanagement and corruption. (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)


 WASHINGTON, : US President Bill Clinton (R) shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (L) outside Blair House 04 July 1999 in Washington, DC, after talks on ways to end fighting in Kashmir. Clinton and Sharif agreed during nearly three hours of talks that 'concrete steps will be taken' to restore the Line of Control between Indian and Pakistan-held Kashmir. AFP PHOTO/Chris KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)


NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 23: Pakistan Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif (L) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari 23 September in New York. The two met on the sidelines of the 53rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo credit should read MOHSIN ALI/AFP/Getty Images)

 Peshawar, PAKISTAN: (FILES) Picture taken 12 December 1988, shows former Pakistani President Ghulam Ishaq Khan casting a ballot for the presidential election at the National Assembly. Khan died 27 October 2006 at 91 years old after a protracted illness. Ishaq Khan took over as president after the death of late military ruler General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq in a plane crash on August 17, 1988. He remained president until 1993. During his tenure, he dissolved the governments of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in 1990, and Nawaz Sharif, in 1993, on different charges. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)


 London, UNITED KINGDOM: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) and ex-opposition politician and cricketer Imran Khan (L) meet in central London, 12 June 2007. Sharif and Khan announced Tuesday they are teaming up to seek to end the 'dictatorship' of President Pervez Musharraf. Speaking at a joint press conference in London, they said they plan to hold a conference in London next month to which former premier Benazir Bhutto will also be invited. AFP PHOTO/BERTRAND LANGLOIS (Photo credit should read BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images)


 (FILES) In this picture taken 28 May 1999, deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif offers prayers in Karachi. Pakistan's Supreme Court said 23 August 2007, that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif can return home after seven years in exile imposed by arch-foe President Pervez Musharraf. Sharif was ousted in October 1999 by Musharraf, who had him sentenced to life in prison on hijacking, tax evasion, and treason charges. He and his brother Shahbaz went into exile in Saudi Arabia the following year. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI/FILES (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)


 Supporters of deposed Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif stand in a lockup after their arrest by the police in Faisalabad, early 07 September 2007. Pakistani police have arrested scores of supporters of Sharif ahead of his planned return to Pakistan on 10 September. Sharif has vowed to come back to Pakistan and stop the re-election for another term of President Pervez Musharraf, the man who toppled him in a bloodless coup in 1999. AFP PHOTO/Nasir KHAN (Photo credit should read NASIR KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)


 INDIA - FEBRUARY 27: Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan ( Neighbours, News Profile ) (Photo by Bhawan Singh/The India Today Group/Getty Images)


 INDIA - OCTOBER 25: Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan offering his Namaz to Allah ( Neighbours, News Portrait ) (Photo by Sharad Saxena/The India Today Group/Getty Images)


 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - JUNE 30: British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) walks with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the Prime Minister's house on June 30, 2013 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Cameron visited Pakistan following his unannounced trip to Afghanistan where he visited troops in Helmand province as the NATO military coalition hands responsibility over to local forces. (Photo by Leon Neal - Pool/Getty Images)


 BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 5: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C) introduces Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif (C-L) to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (CR) before a signing ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People on July 5, 2013, in Beijing, China, Friday. This is Sharif's first foreign visit since returning to power and he is in China to negotiate investment to help his country's own failing economy, however, trade between the two countries reached an all-time high last year when it exceeded 12 billion USD. (Photo by Ng Han Guan-Pool via Getty Images)


 Pakistani Christian minority leader, J. Salik, holds a placard as shouts slogans next to a photograph of United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a protest in Islamabad on October 23, 2013, against US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region. An Amnesty International report on the US drone campaign warned some of the strikes may amount to war crimes, though Washington insists they all comply with international law. Islamabad regularly condemns the strikes on suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants as counter-productive and a violation of sovereignty, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to raise the issue in talks at the White House on October 23. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)


 WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 23: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (L) meets with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House on October 23, 2013, in Washington, DC. Sharif met with U.S. President Barack Obama for bilateral meetings. (Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images)


 Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Shariftalks to an aide in Pakistan, circa 1990. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)


 Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif talking to a crowd in Pakistan, circa 1990. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)


 LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 13: Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reads as he waits for a meeting with Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond following the opening session of the UK-Pakistan Energy Dialogue on November 13, 2014 in London, England. They discussed in the meeting how Pakistan can best address its energy challenges by sharing expertise and experience in the energy sector. (Photo by Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images)


 UFA, RUSSIA - JULY 9: In this handout image supplied by Host Photo Agency / RIA Novosti, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Sharif arrives for the BRICS and SCO summits, with his spouse, Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif, at the Ufa airport on July 09, 2015 in Ufa, Russia. (Photo by Pavel Lisitsyn / Host Photo Agency/Ria Novosti via Getty Images)


 WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on October 21, 2015 in Washington, DC. The two diplomats participated in a bi-lateral meeting at the Blair House. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)


 Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad or Islamic Democratic Alliance (IJI or IDA), participates in friday prayer at the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, following his victory in the Pakistani General Election, Pakistan, 26th October 1990. (Photo by Derek Hudson/Getty Images)


 NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 19: British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif talk during a bilateral meeting at the United Nations Buildng on September 19, 2016,, in New York City. World leaders have arrived in New York for the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. The annual gathering is an opportunity for a number of high-level meetings, sideline bilaterals, and think tank addresses concerning global issues. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)


 China's Premier Li Keqiang (R) and Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shak hands during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 13, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / THOMAS PETER (Photo credit should read THOMAS PETER/AFP/Getty Images)


 TEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 13: Pakistani President Nawaz Sharif received by Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani for a meeting on peace-building in Afghanistan, March 13, 1993. (Photo by ESLAMI RAD/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)


Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, here 07 October. Sharif discussed bilateral and international issues with the Queen during the meeting. The Queen arrived this morning for a six-day state visit. (Photo by SAEED KHAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)


Ex-Punjab Chief Min. IJI ldr. Mian Nawaz Sharif (L) riding in open car w. PM Jatoi, during Islamic Dem. Alliance election campaign. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)




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