The Second Nawaz Sharif government began on 3 February 1997, when

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then ...

was sworn in as the

Prime Minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan (, Roman Urdu, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen Cabinet of Pakistan, cabinet, desp ...

, and ended without completing its mandated term on 12 October 1999. Sharif, a conservative politician who presided the

Pakistan Muslim League The Pakistan Muslim League (; known as PML), is the name of several different Pakistani political parties that have dominated the centre-right platform in the country. The ''Muslim League'' (the original successor of the All-India Muslim ...

from Punjab, took the office following a decisive victory in the

primary elections Primary elections or primaries are elections held to determine which candidates will run in an upcoming general election. In a partisan primary, a political party selects a candidate. Depending on the state and/or party, there may be an "open pri ...

held in 1997 over the

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a Cent ...

– a left-leaning political party. The second administration of Sharif ended with the precedence of Musharraf administration in 1999 when the military took over the control of the federal government and imposed martial law for the 4th time in the country’s history.

Government

Legislature

The government tenured over the 11th

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly of Pakistan, also referred to as ''Aiwān-ē-Zairīñ'', is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, with the upper house being the Senate of Pakistan, Senate. As of 2023, the National Assem ...

which had its members elected in the

1997 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections were a fierce contest between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by pre-election Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Mus ...

. The National Assembly was composed of an overwhelming majority support to the Nawaz Sharif government, while the Peoples Party opposition led by

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...

formed a weak minority opposition of only 18 seats compared to the PML-N’s 135. Elahi Bux Soomro was elected the 16th Speaker of the National Assembly as a candidate for the ruling PML-N.

Judicial

The

Chief Justice of Pakistan The chief justice of Pakistan ( initials as CJP; , ''Munsif-e-Āzam Pākistān'') is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and is the highest-ranking officer of the Pakistani judiciary. The Federal Court of Pakistan was establis ...

from December 1997 to 1999 would be

Ajmal Mian Ajmal Mian (Urdu : ) (4 July 1934 – 16 October 2017) was a Pakistani jurist who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 23 December 1997 to 30 June 1999. See also * List of Pakistanis *Chief Justice of Pakistan ...

, a jurist and judge.

Cabinet

Federal Ministers

Ishaq Dar Muhammad Ishaq Dar (born 13 May 1950) is a Pakistani accountant and politician who currently serves as the 6th deputy prime minister and 38th foreign minister of Pakistan since 2024. A close aide of the Sharif family, Dar is affiliated with ...

* Sartaj Aziz * Gohar Ayub Khan *

Shujaat Hussain Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (born 27 January 1946) is a senior Pakistani politician who previously served as 16th prime minister of Pakistan. Hussain is the Party chair, party president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), PML(Q) since 2003. Hailing ...

Syeda Abida Hussain Syeda Abida Hussain–Imam ( b. 1948) is a Pakistani conservative politician, diplomat and socialite on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). Born into a feudal family in Pakistan, she served as the Pakistan Ambassador to th ...

Nisar Ali Khan Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan (; born 31 July 1954) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Interior Minister from 2013 to 2017. He had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023. He however was uns ...

* Muhammad Azam Khan Hoti * Sheikh Rashid Ahmed * Syed Ghous Ali Shah * Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi * Raja Nadir Pervaiz Khan * Malik Abdul Majeed * Sardar Muhammad Yaqub Khan Nasar * Mian Muhammad Yaseen Khan Wattoo * Mian Abdul Sattar Laleka * Raja Mohammad Zafar-ul-Haq *

Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui () is a Pakistani politician who is 1st Chairman of the MQM since 2024, and had been Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, in office from 20 August 2018 to 6 April 2020. He has been a me ...

* Mushahid Hussain Syed * Khalid Anwar

State Ministers

* Asghar Ali Shah * Syed Ahmed Mehmud * Muhammad Siddique Khan Kanju * Haleem Ahmed Siddiqui * Tahmina Daultana

Reforms and Policies

References

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