shahbaz sharif

Pakistan's opposition leader shahbaz sharif on Monday filed a contempt petition against thegovernment for the inclusion of his name on no-fly list.

shahbaz sharif, the former Chief Minister of Punjab province, co-chairperson of political party Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) and leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan, has been nominated to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan, after the ouster of Imran Khan.

It was a homecoming that Pakistan Punjab’s chief minister Muhammad shahbaz sharif had waited for 49 years.

Pakistan's leader of the opposition and PML-N President shahbaz sharif was arrested on Monday after the Lahore High Court rejected his bail plea in a Rs 7 billion ($41.9 million) money laundering case. Shahbaz was arrested by the anti-graft body NAB a week after the opposition parties launched an alliance to hold a countrywide protest movement to oust the Imran Khan government.

shahbaz sharif was unanimously elected as interim president of Pakistan's ruling PML-N today while his elder brother and ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif was made the beleaguered party's 'Quaid' (top leader) for life time.

Shahbaz, President of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) will be presented before an accountability court for a physical remand on Saturday, he said. He will be kept in a highly-secured lock-up inside the NAB Lahore office until his appearance in court.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said, Shahbaz was not allowed to leave the country after the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) allegedly placed his name on a 'person-not-in-list'.

PML(N) president shahbaz sharif was acquitted by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court of charges of involvement in the extra-judicial killing of five youths in 1998.

Nawaz Sharif will soon return to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia to lead his party in the upcoming general elections, the deposed premier's brother shahbaz sharif has said.

In an explosive interview last week, the three-time prime minister had questioned Pakistan's policy to allow the "non-state actors" to cross the border and "kill" people in Mumbai as he publicly acknowledged that militant groups are active in the country.

The PML-N came second in Pakistan's National Assembly with 82 seats compared to Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) which emerged as the single largest party with 158 seats in the 342-member lower house. shahbaz sharif said the PML-N will perform its role like a "mature political party." But he said that the party MNAs had sworn the oath to "devotedly play the role for which the nation has elected them".

Shahbaz, 67, the younger brother of ousted Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on October 5 in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal housing project scam. He was remanded to a 10-day custody to NAB.

ISLAMABAD: The wife and daughters of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's brother, shahbaz sharif have arrived in Pakistan after being allowed by the government to return from their exile in Jeddah.

Chinese investors are reportedly very impressed with the speedy decision making of shahbaz sharif, the chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab province. And this spurred them late last week to announce a $3 billion investment fund focussing on various sectors in Pakistan.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has barred former PM Nawaz Sharif, and his brother shahbaz sharif from contesting elections, a move likely to raise political tensions.

Terming the deportation of Nawaz Sharif as a criminal act, his brother shahbaz sharif said the deposed former premier was "unlawfully abducted or smuggled" out of Pakistan.

PM Manmohan Singh on Thursday again raised the issue of LoC ceasefire violations with visiting Pakistan Punjab chief minister shahbaz sharif who is also Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's brother.

Foreign minister S M Krishna used his visit to Pakistan to drive home an anti-terrorism message with the opposition just as he did with the federal government, pointedly referring to 26/11 main accused Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed's presence in Punjab during his meeting with chief minister shahbaz sharif on Sunday.

shahbaz sharif, brother of former Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif, is facing possible arrest over his alleged involvement in the murder of five students in Lahore in 1998.