Maryam Nawaz Sharif (Punjabi and Urdu: مريم نواز; born 28 October 1973), also known as Maryam Safdar, is a Pakistani politician and the daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif. She is initially But she was involved in the welfare organizations of the family. However, in 2012, she entered politics and was entrusted with the election campaign during the 2013 general elections. In 2013, she was appointed as the Chairperson of the Prime Minister's Youth Programme. However, he resigned in 2014 after challenging his appointment in the Lahore High Court.
Contents
1 Early life and education2 Plastic surgery
3 Political career
4 The Panama Papers Case
5 Personal wealth
6 audio leak
Early life and education:
Maryam was born to Nawaz Sharif and Kulsoom Butt on 28 October 1973[4][5][6] in Lahore, Pakistan.She received her early education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore. She wanted to become a doctor, so she joined King Edward Medical College in the late 1980s. However, he had to drop out of college without completing his degree, after a controversy arose over illegal admission.
In 1992, she married Safdar Awan at the age of 19 and adopted her husband's surname Maryam Safdar. Awan was currently serving as a captain in the Pakistan Army and was Nawaz Sharif's security officer during his tenure as the later Prime Minister of Pakistan. He has three children with Safdar Awan: a son, Junaid, and two daughters, Mahnoor and Maher-Nisa.
In 2015, at the invitation of Nawaz Sharif, Narendra Modi attended Maryam's daughter's wedding in Pakistan.
She completed her undergraduate studies at Punjab University, from which she earned a Master's degree in Literature. In 2012, she was pursuing a Ph.D. degree on post-9/11 radicalization in Pakistan.
In 2014, her degrees in MA (English Literature) and Ph.D. Questions were raised by the Lahore High Court in Political Science. It was unclear whether his Ph.D. The degree was earned or honorary. In 2018, he declared only his master's degree in English literature while submitting records to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
After the 1999 Pakistani coup, he was detained for four months before being sent into exile in Saudi Arabia along with members of the Sharif family.
Plastic surgery:
Maryam has undergone plastic surgery on her face several times. Dr. Shaista Lodhi, a Pakistani TV host, beautician, and cosmetologist breaks down Maryam's cosmetic enhancements by showing before and after photos. Dr. Lodhi praised Maryam's work as a plastic surgeon.This is not the first time a prominent person has spoken out about Maryam's plastic surgery, in July 2021 Ali Amin Gandapur accused her of misusing taxpayer money to get her surgery done. .
Political career:
Before entering politics, she was involved in the family's philanthropic organization and served as chairperson of Sharif Trust, Sharif Medical City, and Sharif Education Institute.In November 2011, Nawaz Sharif allowed her to enter politics when she expressed her intention to do so. During her political debut, she visited educational institutions to give speeches on education and women's rights.
In January 2012, she tweeted "I'm just helping Nawaz Sharif monitor his cyber cell. No intention to get into electoral or practical politics". was put in charge of Sharif's election campaign where he reportedly played a prominent role.
She was regarded as the "heir-apparent" of Nawaz Sharif and the "future leader" of the PML-N.
In November 2013, she was appointed as the Chairperson of the Prime Minister's Youth Programme. However, her appointment was questioned by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which called the appointment a case of nepotism. And approached the Lahore High Court in October 2014. The building On 12 November 2014, the Lahore High Court ordered the federal government to remove it. The following day, Maryam resigned as chairperson.
In March 2017, she was selected as one of the BBC's 100 Women. In December 2017, she was included in the New York Times list of the 11 most powerful women in the world for 2017.
She became politically active in 2017 after her father Nawaz Sharif was disqualified and convicted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Panama Papers case and money laundering through employment in the United Arab Emirates. He campaigned for his mother Kulsoom Nawaz during the by-elections in NA-120 constituency.
In June 2018, she was given a PML-N ticket to contest the 2018 general elections from constituencies NA-127 (Lahore-V) and PP-173. In July, he was impeached by the National Accountability Bureau. She was sentenced to 7 years in prison for corruption filed in the Avonfield Reference. As a result, she was disqualified from contesting elections for 10 years. After which PML-N nominated Ali Pervez and Malik Irfan Shafi Khokhar to contest the 2018 elections from NA-127 and PP-173 constituencies respectively.
On 8 August 2019, he was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau Lahore in connection with the Chaudhry Sugar Mills corruption. In November 2019, he was released on bail by the Lahore High Court in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills corruption charges.
The Panama Papers Case:
Further information: Panama Papers CaseOn April 3, 2016, the Panama Papers were leaked and Maryam was named in it along with her two brothers Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz. According to records released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Maryam was said to be the owner of British Virgin Islands-based firms Nielsen Enterprises Limited and Niscol Limited, and allegedly owned properties in the UK that was jointly owned. In response to her brother, Maryam denied owning any company or property outside of Pakistan and said, "My brother has made me a trustee in a corporation of his own that I only own my brother. Gives Hussain's family/children the right to distribute assets if required".
In September 2016, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan seeking action against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members for their alleged involvement in the Panama Papers scandal. went. In January 2017, Maryam submitted her affidavit in the Supreme Court saying that she has not been dependent on her father Nawaz Sharif since her marriage in 1992. On 16 February 2017, Maryam's lawyer admitted before the Supreme Court that Maryam owned four flats in London for at least six months in 2006. On April 20, the Supreme Court delivered a separate verdict and ordered the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the irregularities in the assets of the Sharif family. On July 10, the JIT submitted its report to the Supreme Court in which it maintained that the Sharif family had more assets than known sources of income. In its report, the JIT noted that Maryam had misled the Supreme Court by producing fake documents and said that the Calibri font used in the 2006 declaration prepared by Maryam was not commercially available before January 31, 2007. was The scandal was widely referred to as Fontgate.
The Supreme Court announced its verdict on 28 July 2017, disqualifying Nawaz Sharif for public office as he was dishonest in not disclosing his employment with Dubai-based Capital FZE Company in his nomination papers. The court also ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to file a reference against corruption allegations against Sharif and his family members.
In September 2017, NAB filed three corruption references against Nawaz Sharif and his three children, including Maryam, in compliance with the Supreme Court's judgment in the Panama Papers case. In October, an accountability court indicted Maryam, Nawaz Sharif and Maryam's husband in the Avonfield reference, one of three corruption references filed by the NAB against four Sharif family members in Avonfield. Relates to ownership of The Flats, an apartment located in Park Lane. London After 107 hearings in the Avonfield case since September 2017, the Accountability Court reserved judgment on the case on 3 July 2018.
On July 6, 2018, he was sentenced by NAB to 7 years in prison and a fine of 2 million pounds for corruption in the Avonfield reference case. He was sentenced to 7 years and one year for non-cooperation with NAB. The two sentences will run concurrently. As a result, she was disqualified from contesting elections for 10 years. The court declared that the trust deeds submitted by Maryam before the Supreme Court were forged and tampered with. Her father, Nawaz Sharif, and her husband were also sentenced to ten years and one year respectively. Sentenced to a year in prison.The court also ordered the confiscation of the Sharif family's Avonfield flats.
The next day, Maryam announced that she would return to Pakistan on July 13 to file an appeal against the verdict. On the same day, NAB announced its intention to arrest him and Nawaz Sharif upon their arrival in Pakistan and obtained the required arrest warrant. He, along with Nawaz Sharif, was taken into custody by NAB on arrival at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport on 13 July and flown to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. On 26 July, he returned to Islamabad. challenged his conviction in the High Court and filed a bail application. The following day, the Islamabad High Court rejected his bail application and adjourned the hearing until the end of the 2018 Pakistani general elections. While in detention, he spent a lot of time reading books.
On 21 August 2018, the Imran Khan-led federal government put him on the exit control list to prevent him from leaving Pakistan. On September 11, his mother Kulsoom Nawaz died in London. Maryam was released on parole from Adiala Jail along with her father and husband. She was taken to Lahore to attend her mother's funeral. According to reports, Maryam and her father initially refused parole. Kulsoom Nawaz's funeral prayer was performed on 14 September 2018. On 17 September, Maryam was transferred to Adiala Jail along with her father and husband.
On September 19, 2018, the Islamabad High Court delivered its verdict on the bail plea, suspending the prison sentences against Maryam, her father and her husband and ordering them to be released on bail. The court ordered them to post a surety bond of Rs 500,000 each before their release. She was released from Adiala Jail the same day and taken to Lahore.
Personal wealth:
In a TV show with Pakistani anchor Sana Bucha in 2011, Maryam said she did not own any property in central London, let alone in Pakistan.It was later revealed by a joint investigation team in 2017 that "she was the beneficiary of London Flats and had deliberately never declared ownership of these overseas properties, submitted fake documents, and misled the Court of Pakistan".
In her affidavit to the Election Commission of Pakistan in 2018, Maryam stated the value of her assets at Rs 2,000. 845 million (US$3.7 million).
She owns 1,506 kanals (188 acres) of agricultural land and has invested millions in companies.
Audio leak:
Over the years, several audios of Maryam Nawaz have been leaked.Recently an audio was leaked on 24 September 2022 in which his uncle, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif can be heard talking to an unknown person. In the audio, an unidentified person is telling Maryam's uncle, Shahbaz Sharif, that Maryam is asking for a power plant from India for her son-in-law's business. Shahbaz Sharif then tells the unidentified man about the problems of importing the plant from India as it will be used by former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan against his government.
