The new political leader, Maryam Nawaz, is the Chief Minister of Punjab

Maryam Nawaz was born on October 28, 1973 in a developed city of Lahore in Pakistan. Her father's name is Nawaz Sharif and her mother's name is Kalsoom Nawaz. Her father belongs to a political party named Pakistan Muslim League'N' Is. Maryam Nawaz received her early education at Account of Jesus and Mary, Lahore.

Maryam Nawaz tried to get admission in Kinnaired College for FSC but the principal of the college told her that her academic standing was not good and there was a long list of better educated children who would be preferred. Hearing this, his father Nawaz Sharif asked the Chief Minister of Punjab at that time to suspend the principal of this college from duty. However, after a strike by college students and teachers, it was reinstated. Maryam Nawaz later tried to become a doctor and joined King Edward Medical College in the late 1980s.

However, he had to drop out of college without completing his degree due to a controversy over illegal admission. In 1992, she married Safdar Awan at the age of 19. Safdar was then serving as a captain in the Pakistan Army and was the security officer of the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif. He has three children with Maryam Nawaz Safdar Awan. She has a son named Junaid Safdar and two daughters Mahnoor and Maher Nisa. After the 1999 Pakistani coup, she was detained for four months before being sent into exile in Saudi Arabia along with members of the Sharif family.

She completed her undergraduate studies at Panjab University, from where he obtained a Master's degree in Literature. In 2012, she was pursuing a Ph.D. He pursued a degree in post 9/11 radicalization in Pakistan and has been described as an admirer of later neo-demographic writers such as the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

In 2015, at Nawaz Sharif's invitation, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended Maryam Nawaz's daughter's wedding in Pakistan. In 2014, his MA and PhD degrees in political science were questioned by the Lahore High Court. It was not clear whether his Ph.D. degree was earned or honorary. In 2018, he declared only his master's degree in English literature while submitting records to the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Maryam Nawaz was found involved in a corruption case related to her family's illicit assets in July 2017 was clearly declared fake by the court. On March 11, 2023, an audio recording of Maryam Nawaz was allegedly leaked in which he was killed by PTI workers for the killing of his uncle, who was the Prime Minister of Pakistan at that time, Shahbaz Sharif, PTI activist Ali Bilal. She was suggesting that the car was presented as an accident. On April 3, 2016, the name of Maryam Nawaz and her two brothers Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz came to light when the Panama Papers were leaked.

According to records disclosed by the (ICIJ), Maryam Nawaz was said to be the owner of British Virgin Islands-based firms Nelson Enterprises Limited and Niscol Limited and was said to own properties in the UK that were in her name. In response to her brother, Maryam Nawaz denied owning any company or property outside Pakistan and said, "My brother has made me a trustee in one of his corporations that I can provide to my brother Hussain's children and the family in case of need.  gives the right to distribute assets on behalf of".

In September (2016), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan seeking action against Nawaz Sharif and his family for their alleged involvement in the Panama Papers scandal.  In January (2017), Maryam Nawaz submitted her statement in the Supreme Court stating that she was no longer dependent on her father Nawaz Sharif after her marriage in (1992). On 16 February (2017), Maryam Nawaz's lawyer admitted before the Supreme Court that Maryam Nawaz owned four flats in London for at least six months in (2006).

On April 20, the Supreme Court of Pakistan delivered a verdict and ordered the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to investigate the assets of the Sharif family.  On July 10, the Investigation Team (JIT) submitted its report to the Supreme Court in which it maintained that the Sharif family had more assets than known sources of income.

In its report, the JIT noted that Maryam Nawaz had misled the Supreme Court by producing fake documents and said that the Caliber font used in the declaration prepared by Maryam Nawaz (2006) dated 31 January (2007) Not previously commercially available. In September (2017), NAB filed three corruption references against Nawaz Sharif and his three children, including Maryam Nawaz, in compliance with the Supreme Court of Pakistan's judgment in the Panama Papers case. In October (2017), the accountability court indicted Maryam Nawaz, Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz's husband Safdar in the Avenfield reference, one of the three corruption references filed by the NAB.

It is related to ownership of four flats of Sharif family. After (107) hearings of the Avenfield case since September 2017, the accountability court had reserved its verdict on the case on July 3 (2018).

On July 6 (2018), NAB sentenced him to 7 years in prison and (20) lakh pounds for corruption in the Avenfield reference case. As a result, she was disqualified from contesting elections for 10 years. The court declared that the trust deeds presented by Maryam Nawaz before the Supreme Court were fake and were tampered with.

Her father Nawaz Sharif and her husband Safdar Awan were also sentenced to ten years and one year imprisonment respectively. The court had also ordered the confiscation of the Avenfield flats of the Sharif family.

On September 19 (2018), the Islamabad High Court while delivering its verdict on the bail application suspended the prison sentences against Maryam Nawaz and her father Nawaz Sharif and her husband Safdar Awan and ordered them to be released on bail.

The court ordered them all to post Rs 500,000 as surety bonds before their release.  And he was released from Adiala Jail on the same day and taken to Lahore. Maryam Nawaz, who was also granted bail in (2019), appealed against the (2018) decision of the accountability court in the Islamabad High Court in October last year. (2022) Shortly after Maryam Nawaz's uncle Shahbaz Sharif came to power as Prime Minister of Pakistan following a no-confidence vote against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, changes were made in the senior leadership of the National Accountability Bureau, and the questionable. In the circumstances, the conviction was for corruption.

The case against Maryam Nawaz and her husband Safdar Awan was quashed by the Islamabad High Court on September 29, 2022 after no additional information was provided. It was around this time that several corruption cases were closed against the Sharif family, including Shahbaz Sharif's son Hamza Shahbaz and Shahbaz Sharif himself. Three times Maryam Nawaz became eligible to contest for office after being acquitted by the court. Over the years, several audios of Maryam Nawaz have been leaked.  On September 24 (2022), an audio was leaked in which her uncle, the then current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif can be heard talking to an unknown person.

The unknown person in the audio is Maryam's uncle Shahbaz. He is telling Sharif that Maryam Nawaz is asking to order a power plant from India for her son-in-law's business.  Shahbaz Sharif then informs the unknown person about the matter of importing the plant from India as it will be used against former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government. 

When the details of the assets disclosed in the nomination papers came out, Maryam Nawaz disclosed assets of more than Rs 84.258 crore in her nomination papers for constituency NA-119 which was approved by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

Today, Maryam Nawaz's father Nawaz Sharif, who was convicted and went out of the country in a state of illness, has now returned and has the full support of the establishment. 

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