Maryam Nawaz Sharif, also known as Maryam Safdar, is a Pakistani politician. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif. Maryam was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in March 2017. She was featured on The New York Times list of 11 Powerful Women Around the World for the year 2017.
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Maryam Nawaz Sharif, also known as Maryam Safdar, is a Pakistani politician. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif. In July 2018, she was sentenced to seven years in prison with £2 million fine on corruption charges in the Avenfield reference case. On 19 September, the Islamabad High Court suspended her sentence. Maryam was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in March 2017. She was featured on The New York Times list of 11 Powerful Women Around the World for the year 2017. As of October 2017, she has three children with Safdar Awan: One son Junaid and two daughters Mahnoor and Mehr-un-Nisa. She received her early education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore. She wanted to become a doctor, hence she enrolled in King Edward Medical College in the late 1980s. However, after a controversy over illegal admission arose, she had to leave the college without completing her degree.
In 1992, she married SafdarAwan at the age of 19 and assumed her husband’s surname as Mariam Safdar. She completed undergraduate studies from the University of Punjab, from where she received a master’s degree in literature. In 2012, she did her Ph. D. degree on post-911 radicalization in Pakistan. In 2014, her degrees in M. A. and Ph.D. in Political Science were questioned by Lahore High Court. In April 2016, she arrested by National Accountability Bureau Lahore over Chaudhry Sugar Mills corruption charges. As a result of the charges, her bail was released on November 2019. Following which she was disqualified from contesting election for 10 years. On April 3, 2016, she was nominated to contest the PML-N Constituency NA-127 and PP-173, respectively. On August 8, 2019, she was arrested by NAB Lahore for corruption charges over the Panama Papers case. She has since been released on bail.
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