Nawaz Sharif (complete name, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif) is the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), a nationwide party with its main support in the Punjab. Mr Sharif was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, on 10 December 1949 in a family of Kashmiri descent that fled to Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947 from Jatti Umra, a village in Amritsar district of the undivided Punjab, now part of the Indian East Punjab. His father and uncles jointly owned an iron foundry. Starting from humble circumstances, they expanded their business and became prosperous and affluent. Mr Sharif is married and has two sons and two daughters.
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