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...Entered politics as a provincial politician from Punjab when he was hand-selected as finance leader by Pakistan's president Zia ul-Haq in 1981. He later became Punjab's chief minister in 1988, where he used his influence to challenge prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who took power after ul-Haq died in a plane crash...
...elections, his party won a large majority and Sharif used his political capital to strike Pakistan's Eighth Amendment, stripping the president of his powers to remove the prime minister from office...
...army chief, Pervez Musharraf, removed Nawaz from office in a bloodless coup in 1999 after Nawaz tried to limit the power of the military. Nawaz was tried and convicted on charges of air piracy after he refused to let the plane carrying Musharraf, who had been abroad, land in Pakistan during the last hours of his presidency...
...Returned to Pakistan in September 2007 to compete in parliamentary elections, but when he was threatened with arrest at the airport upon landing, he returned to Saudi Arabia. He was allowed entry to the country two months later...
...imprisonment during his first attempt to return from exile in 2007. Sharif was turned away. The Times, September 11, 2007. • "We want democracy and nothing else. I am here to play my role and also make my own efforts to rid the country of dictatorship." -on returning to Pakistan for good in Nov. 2007, USA Today...