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Do we like Nawaz Sharif?

Our score: 5 out of 10. A thin harm record with no campaigning found, a messy legal history that ended in acquittals, and not enough verified good to push higher.

Nawaz Sharif is a three-time prime minister of Pakistan and the face of the PML-N, the party his family still runs. He is also a man who never finished a term: his last stint ended in July 2017 when the Supreme Court booted him out of office. Pakistani politics is a contact sport, and he has copped plenty of it.

The cases that followed ended in his favour. An accountability court convicted him in December 2018 in the Al-Azizia steel mills reference. After he came home from years abroad, the Islamabad High Court acquitted him in Avenfield on 29 November 2023 and in Al-Azizia on 12 December 2023. His brother called it vindication; critics would say the timing, weeks before the 2024 election, sat awkwardly. Where you land depends on whether you see it as a correction or a convenient clean-up.

Harm check: searches turned up no campaign of his own against LGBTQ+ or trans people, women or the climate, and no slide into conspiracy theories. That said, the record we could verify is thin, and his minority-rights record is a mixed bag that critics and supporters read differently. We can only say what we found, and what we found is not a pattern of harm.

The recent news is mostly family-business politics. In July 2026 he was on the campaign trail in Azad Kashmir, saying he would like the prime minister's job there if his party wins. His party still sits in the middle of power in Pakistan, with his brother and daughter in senior roles.

On the good stuff, honestly, we could not verify charity or kind acts to the standard this page needs, so we are not going to pad it. His government's motorways and power projects are claimed by supporters and disputed by critics, and we did not read enough to judge. That's a gap in our reading, not a clean bill.

So: would we support him? Not enthusiastically. He passes the harm test with an asterisk on the evidence we could find, and the good-person test is a mixed bag given the Supreme Court ruling and the later acquittals. Treat it as a close call and read more before cheering.