File footage Shabaz Sharif, brother of ousted Pakistani prime minister

Record ID: 904884

  • Title: File footage Shabaz Sharif, brother of ousted Pakistani prime minister
  • Date: 1st August 2017
  • Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (FILE - JUNE, 2013) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTER SHAHBAZ SHARIF ARRIVING TO ADMINISTER OATH TO PUNJAB ASSEMBLY MEMBERS SHARIF SHAKING HANDS WITH MEMBERS SHARIF ADMINISTERING OATH LAHORE, PAKISTAN (FILE - APRIL 24, 2014) (REUTERS) SHARIF CHAIRING SOUTH ASIA LABOUR CONFERENCE SHARIF SEATED BESIDE FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES SHARIF PUTTING ON GLASSES
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2017 06:53
  • Keywords: Pakistan prime minister ousted brother Nawaz Sharif Shabaz Sharif parliement
  • Location: LAHORE, CHINIOT, SAHIWAL, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
  • City: LAHORE, CHINIOT, SAHIWAL, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016SCTBNP
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: FOR FILE FOOTAGE OF PAKISTAN'S EXPECTED INTERIM PRIME MINISTER, SHAHID KHAQAN ABBASI, PLEASE SEE EDIT 6082-PAKISTAN-POLITICS/ABBASI FILE
    With politics being a family business in Pakistan, ousted leader Nawaz Sharif has had to look no further than his brother, Shahbaz, for a successor.
    The Supreme Court on Friday (July 28) disqualified Nawaz from office over undeclared income and ordered a criminal investigation into him and his family. But Shahbaz's accession is almost guaranteed due to ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party's hefty majority in parliament.
    First, though, Shahbaz needs to be made eligible to take over by winning a parliamentary by-election expected within two months. On Tuesday (August 1), Nawaz loyalist Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is expected to be elected interim prime minister.
    Shahbaz Sharif, 65, has been in Nawaz's shadow during their three decades in politics, forging a reputation as a workaholic administrator obsessed with infrastructure mega-projects in the vast Punjab province, the family's powerbase that is home to more than half of Pakistan's 190 million people.
    His hands-on style as chief minister of Punjab - peppering officials with WhatsApp messages in the dead of night - has won him admirers in the provincial capital Lahore, a Mughul-era city spruced up with slick highways and manicured boulevards.
    Shahbaz's governing style is in sharp contrast to Nawaz's hands-off approach, but the two brothers espouse a similar pro-business ideology. Their biggest difference may be in their relations with the military, which plays an outsized role in Pakistani politics and currently controls key areas of policy such as relations with India and the United States.
    Analysts say Shahbaz has cultivated better ties with the generals, who cut short the second of Nawaz's three stints in power with a coup in 1999 -- a less antagonist relationship with the military may bode well for his premiership in a nation where the army has a history of staging coups or helping topple governments.
    Shahbaz, second of three children of industrialist Mian Muhammad Sharif, was born four years after Pakistan's independence from British colonial rule in 1947. He joined the family business and entered politics at a time when Nawaz was Punjab's chief minister in the 1980s.
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