Sharif family

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The Sharif family is a Pakistani political family of Punjabi Kashmiri background. They have played a prominent role in Pakistani politics, especially in Punjab, since the 1980s, the family held the leadership of the Islamic Jamhuri Ittihad; and has held the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League – N (PML–N) for most of the party's existence since 1993. Originating in the Anantnag region of the Kashmir Valley, the family moved to Amritsar District, Punjab in the 1870s during the British Raj rule and settled in the village of Jati Umra around 1900. Following the partition of India in 1947, the Sharifs moved to the Jati Umra locality of Lahore, which they had named after the village of Amritsar. The Sharifs belongs to the Bhat tribe and are of Kashmiri Brahmin ancestry. Muhammad Sharif, the father of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, migrated from Jati Umra, Amritsar District (now in Tarn Taran district, India, after the creation of Pakistan in 1947). He was a businessman who...

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