New Delhi: Mian Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, belongs to  one of the richest and influential families of Pakistan. The Sharif family has been an active participant in the polity of Pakistan since long.

 
 
Nawaz Sharif has become the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the third time and his brother Shahbaz Sharif has once again taken over the reins of power in Punjab.
 
A steel tycoon cum politician, Sharif has made an astounding comeback after being toppled in a 1999 coup by the then Army Chief Gen Pervez Musharraf. Nawaz was jailed and exiled and he  spent seven years in wilderness.