Nawaz Sharif
Former Pakistani Prime Minister
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| April 9 2025 | A high-level delegation from the National Party (NP), led by party president Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch, met with Nawaz Sharif and senior Pakistan Muslim League (N) leaders in Lahore to discuss the Balochistan crisis. |
| March 16 2025 | Becomes the Patron-In-Chief of Lahore Heritage Revival Authority. |
| March 2025 | Defence Minister Khawaja Asif announced that Nawaz Sharif was prepared to assist in addressing the deteriorating situation in Balochistan. |
| 2024 | Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan from London and regained leadership over the Pakistan Muslim League (N) to launch an election campaign for a fourth term as Prime Minister in the 2024 Pakistani general election. |
| 2024 | The civil society organization PATTAN concluded that NA-130 would face significant rigging prior to the elections, asserting that the Election Commission of Pakistan engaged in 'historic rigging' in favor of Nawaz Sharif. |
| 2024 | In the 2024 Pakistani general election, Nawaz Sharif ran for a seat in the National Assembly from NA-130 Lahore-XIV against jailed PTI senior Yasmin Rashid and officially gained 179,310 votes. |
| 2024 | Following the election, Nawaz Sharif's party failed to win a simple majority, leading to the formation of a coalition government under his younger brother, Shehbaz Sharif. |
| 2024 | His eldest daughter, Maryam Nawaz, began serving as the chief minister of Punjab. |
| 2023 | Nawaz returned to Pakistan after four years of exile and was acquitted in the Avenfield and Al-Azizia Steel Mills cases by the Islamabad High Court. |
| 2022 | Following the ascension of his brother Shehbaz Sharif as Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif was acquitted in some 40-year old cases and declared a 'political victim' in others. |
| March 2020 | Nawaz Sharif was granted bail for a period of six weeks by the Supreme Court to continue pursuing his health treatment. |
| October 2019 | The Islamabad High Court granted Nawaz Sharif bail on humanitarian grounds, allowing him to seek medical treatment in London. |
| 2018 | The Pakistani Supreme Court ruled that Nawaz Sharif would be disqualified from holding public office for life due to his involvement in the Panama Papers case. |
| 2018 | The Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz from holding public office and he was sentenced to ten years in prison by an accountability court. |
| 2018 | The Islamabad High Court suspended the sentences of Nawaz Sharif, citing issues with the conviction, including lack of specification of income sources and inadequate verification of evidence. |
| December 2018 | Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to seven years in prison by an accountability court, fined Rs1.5 billion and US $25 million, and disqualified from holding any public office for 10 years following his release from prison due to allegations related to funds from his son's company in Saudi Arabia. |
| December 2018 | Nawaz Sharif was acquitted in the flagship investment case related to the Panama Papers, as the accountability court found insufficient evidence to convict him. |
| July 13 2018 | Nawaz Sharif's daughter, Maryam Nawaz, and her husband, Safdar Awan, were arrested upon their arrival in Lahore and subsequently imprisoned in Adiala Jail along with Nawaz. |
| July 6 2018 | Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Federal Judicial Complex of Pakistan as part of the corruption charges linked to the Panama Papers case. |
| 2017 | Nawaz was removed from office by the Supreme Court of Pakistan following the Panama Papers case. |
| July 28 2017 | The court disqualified Nawaz Sharif from holding public office, stating he had been dishonest by not disclosing his employment with the Dubai-based Capital FZE company in his nomination papers. |
| March 2017 | Nawaz delivered an address at Jamia Naeemia, urging Islamic scholars to promote true teachings of Islam and combat disunity among Muslims. |
| March 3 2017 | Nawaz Sharif's cabinet approved a set of steps for the proposed merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which included a 10-year billion development-reform package. |
| January 9 2017 | The government, under Nawaz's leadership, denied visas for international preachers for the Tablighi Jamaat conference in Lahore. |
| December 23 2016 | A Chinese consortium won the bid for a 40% stake in the Pakistan Stock Exchange with an offer of US$85.5 million. |
| December 15 2016 | Pakistan became a signatory of the OECD's Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters aimed at curbing tax evasion. |
| December 6 2016 | Nawaz approved the renaming of Quaid-i-Azam University's physics centre to Professor Abdus Salam Center for Physics and established the Professor Abdus Salam Fellowship. |
| December 3 2016 | A report indicated that the US National Defence Authorisation Act was set to be approved, which would recognize Pakistan as a key strategic partner and pledge over $900 million in assistance, contingent on combating terrorism. |
| December 1 2016 | Nawaz Sharif congratulated president-elect Donald Trump, who referred to him as a 'terrific guy' and expressed that Pakistan is a 'fantastic country'. |
| November 1 2016 | Imran Khan ceased protests after the Supreme Court announced it would form a judicial commission to investigate allegations related to the Panama Papers concerning the Sharif family's offshore wealth. |
| October 29 2016 | Imran Khan mobilized workers to begin a lockdown of Islamabad, demanding Nawaz Sharif's resignation and a corruption inquiry, leading to significant unrest. |
| October 27 2016 | Nawaz Sharif hosted the 15th ministerial meeting of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) and proposed an Open Skies Agreement between the participating countries. |
| September 23 2016 | As a sign of improving ties between Pakistan and Russia, Russian forces arrived in Pakistan to participate in joint military exercises. |
| September 22 2016 | Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN General Assembly, demanding an independent inquiry and a UN fact-finding mission to investigate extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| September 21 2016 | Republican Congressmen Ted Poe and Dana Rohrabacher introduced a bill in the US Congress to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, which Senator McCain assured former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari would not pass. |
| September 4 2016 | Pakistan's cabinet received approval to negotiate a long-term defence agreement with China. |
| August 23 2016 | Officials reported the arrest of 654 target killers affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's armed wing since the start of the Karachi operation. |
| July 26 2016 | US Senator John McCain visited Pakistan to discuss counterterrorism efforts in the region, emphasizing the importance of US-Pakistan relations for regional stability. |
| July 8 2016 | The killing of Burhan Wani by Indian security forces led to widespread anti-Indian protests in Kashmir, escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. |
| June 2016 | Tensions escalated between Afghan and Pakistani forces due to Pakistan's construction of fences along the Durand Line, resulting in cross-border shootings that left three people dead. On 20 June, Pakistan completed a trench along the border in Balochistan. |
| June 25 2016 | Pakistan became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. |
| May 2016 | Nawaz underwent open heart surgery in London, marking his second open-heart operation. |
| April 19 2016 | General Raheel Sharif, the army chief of Pakistan, warned that there was a need for across-the-board accountability amid the Panama Papers scandal involving Nawaz Sharif's family. |
| April 15 2016 | The government of Pakistan announced an investigation led by an inquiry commission regarding all Pakistanis named in the Panama Papers, where Nawaz Sharif's family was implicated. |
| April 8 2016 | Following lobbying by international development groups, the government changed its methodology for measuring poverty, which increased the poverty ratio from 9.3% to 29.5%. |
| March 2016 | As one of his foreign policy successes, Nawaz Sharif saw the United States Senate block a bid to derail the sale of F-16 Falcons to Pakistan, despite efforts by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker. |
| March 2016 | The Washington Post reported Nawaz Sharif's efforts to unblock access to YouTube, push to end child marriage, and enact a landmark domestic violence bill. |
| March 30 2016 | The sit-in protest led by Sunni Tehreek in Islamabad ended after the government promised not to amend the blasphemy laws, having shrunk to 700 protesters by the conclusion. |
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