Mian Shahbaz Sharif,

ISLAMABAD: Former Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has made it clear the long march would be succeeded at all cost despite section 144, negative tactics of administration and brutal use of force by Police on lawyers, civil society and Political activists.
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History would never forgive us if the rulers did not open their eyes even today, he said this while talking to Private TV Channel from undisclosed location in Rawalpindi.

President Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Mian Shahbaz Sharif advised President Asif Ali Zardari to leave his ego and restore deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

President’s name would be written in golden words if he restores deposed CJP, he said, adding that, Quaid PML-N and Former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif have rendered sacrifice of Premiership for country and nation but today the rulers are leveling allegations of confrontation against him.

Quaid PML-N Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif never sought anything for himself and he along with the nation is fighting for independent judiciary, Shahbaz said. “Nawaz Sharif has said that our first priority is to restore judges,” he added

President Asif Ali Zardari has humiliated the nation by not fulfilling the promises, which he made with regard to restoration of judiciary, he said. We would not create any hurdle in Zardari’s led Government but it would have to restores deposed CJP, he said.

He said that that the rulers should respect the wishes and message of their slain leader Benazir Bhutto and restore the deposed Chief Justice. Flood of people have come out today in Lahore and it was a message for rulers to open their eyes and respect their wishes by reinstating deposed CJP, he said.

Former Chief Minister Punjab also appealed Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to play his role keeping in view the sensitive situation of the country.

He further said that PML-N never asked its people to damage public or private properties and appealed to the people to take part in the long march in peaceful manner.

Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif also known as Shahbaz Sharif (Urdu: میاں محمد شہاز شریف )

Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif also known as Shahbaz Sharif (Urdu: میاں محمد شہاز شریف ) is a well known Pakistani politician and President of Pakistan Muslim League (N). He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was the Chief Minister of Punjab, the most populous province of Pakistan, from 1997 to 1999 and from 2008 to 2009.



Family
Mian Shahbaz Sharif’s first marriage with his cousin Nusrat Shahbaz (Urdu: نصرت شہباز) in 1973 with the approval of his father, the late Mian Muhammad Sharif. They have two sons, Hamza and Salman and three daughters. Shahbaz Sharif's second marriage was with Aaliya Honey (Urdu: عالیہ ہنی) in 1993-94. At that time he was living in London. They have one daughter, Khadija. According to some sources, many issues and legal requirements were not met in their divorce.[citation needed] Shahbaz Sharif's third marriage is with Tehmina Durrani. This is the third marriage for both of them.

Chief Minister of Punjab 2nd Term

On June 8, 2008, Sharif was elected as Chief Minister of Punjab, receiving 265 votes from the members of the 371-seat provincial assembly. He was the only candidate, and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q boycotted the vote. Speaking after his election, he called on Musharraf to resign. He won a vote of confidence on June 9, receiving 266 votes.

Shahbaz Shareef after becoming CM of Punjab had been welcomed by all local public and media which has been indicated by Lahore's ( Shahbaz Shareef home land ) only real estate magazine Property Standard in their Sep 08 issue.

His second term as Chief Minister lasted until Wednesday, the 25th of February,2009, when a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Justice Moosa K. Leghari declared him uneligible to contest elections, took away his seat in the Punjab Assembly, and thereby, removed him from office.


Chief Minister of Punjab
He was considered a very strict administrator and chief minister of Punjab but he also received criticism as he had and took advantage of illegitimate power chief minister of Punjab because his brother was Prime Minister of Pakistan and made their party up a record majority of the parliment.[citation needed] He was ousted in the 1999 Military Coup, which brought Pervez Musharraf to power. He had been a famous chief minster all over the Punjab.

President of Pakistan Muslim League (N)

Exile
He lived in exile in London with his brother, the exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after coming from Saudi Arabia. He once tried coming back to Pakistan following a High Court decision that he was free to come back whenever he wanted. On May 11, 2004 his plane landed at Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore but he was arrested and again deported to Saudi Arabia within a few hours.


President of Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Mian Shahbaz Sharif was elected President of Pakistan Muslim League (N) on 3 August 2002 while on exile in Saudi Arabia. He was re-elected President of PML(N) for the second term on 2nd August 2006.

He was once thought of as a strong future candidate for Prime Minister of Pakistan.


Return to Pakistan
In August 2007, Supreme Court of Pakistan gave its verdict which allowed Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif to return back to Pakistan.

On September 7, 2007, judge Shabbir Hussain Chatha ordered police to arrest Shahbaz Sharif, brother of Nawaz Sharif and produce him before the court, after the hearing in Lahore. The court ruled that "Shahbaz Sharif should be arrested (at) whichever airport he lands at." Nawaz Sharif too faces detention on the pair's planned return from exile to Pakistan on September 10, 2007, to challenge President Pervez Musharraf's 8-year military rule.

His brother Shahbaz Sharif changed return plans at the last minute.

Sharif was not allowed to participate in the 2008 elections because of allegations against him. His son Hamza Sharif was supposed to run from a NA seat in Lahore but due to the death of a candidate the elections were postponed.

Ittefaq Group

It was founded by Muhammad Sharif, father of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his six brothers, The Ittefaq Foundry established in 1939.

The new industrial units were set up with electrifying speed in the 1980s while Nawaz Sharif was the finance minister and later Chief Minister of Punjab province. Ittefaq Sugar Mills was set up in 1982, Brothers steel in 1983, Brother's Textile Mills in 1986, Ittefaq Textile units in 2-3 in 1987, Khalid Siraj Textile Mills in 1988.

During first Benazir govt when Nawaz Sharif was the uncrowned King of the powerful Punjab province, the group started work on Brothers Sugar Mills and Ramzan Sugar Mills which turned out to be the last project set up under the banner of Ittefaq. As soon as Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister in 1990, Mian Mohammad Sharif switched over to setting up projects independent of the other partners, thus laying the grounds for split.

It was said that when Nawaz Sharif became prime minister, the group took a decision to secure project loans from the foreign banks and only working capital was taken from the nationalized commercial banks. The project financing from foreign banks was ostensibly secured against the foreign currency deposits, a number of which were held in benamee accounts, as repeatedly claimed by Interior Minister Naseer Ullah Babar at his press conferences.

At a press conference in Islamabad, on August 3, 1989 Shahbaz Sharif was gave the assets of the group at Rs 3.6 billion, but the report of the Cooperative Scam Tribunal estimated the group assets in 1989, according to their own declaration at Rs 6 billion.

In 1992 when Salman Taseer, Information Secretary, PPP released an account of Nawaz govt's corruption in a booklet "The Plunder of Pakistan" a spokesman of House of Ittefaq said in a counter statement that the group has incurred loans worth Rs 4,420 million only from the commercial banks contrary to Salman Taseer 's claim of Rs 12 billion. According to the spokesman, the group comprised only 14 companies in its fold with assets of 6 billion.

H U Beg Committee, set up by Nawaz govt in 1990 to investigate the allegations of concentration of wealth had identified 19 companies in the House of Ittefaq with assets worth Rs 10 billion and for the purpose of ranking in this book. I have relied on the estimates of the H U Beg Committee. However at a press conference in Islamabad, on March 2, 1994, Khalid Siraj, a cousin of prime minister claimed that the assets of the seven brothers were valued at Rs 21 billion.

The units in Ittefaq as identified by H U Beg Committee included three listed companies, 12 unlisted public companies and 4 private limited companies.

According to agreement reached in Lahore High Court by members of the family sometime in 1996, the House of Ittefaq has split in two groups. The first comprised the families of Mian Mohammad Sharif, Mohammad Shafi, Barkat Ali, Yousaf Aziz and Idrees Bashir while the second group comprised the families of Meraj Din and Siraj Din. Members of the Ittefaq group are currently operating in three groups namely Sharif Group, Ittefaq Group and Haseeb Waqas Group. The three groups have only four companies listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) listed companies of Ittefaq Group:

1.Ittefaq Textile Mills
2.Brothers Textile Mills
3.Khalid Siraj Textile Mills
4.Haseeb Waqas Sugar