Asma nawaz biography for kids

Pakistani political family

The Sharif family is a Pakistani political family of Punjabi–Kashmiri background. Playing a prominent role in Pakistani politics, especially in Punjab, since late-1980s, the family held the leadership of the Islamic Democratic Alliance; and has held the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-N for most of the party's existence. Originating in East Punjab and the Kashmir Valley, the family has been settled in Lahore, the capital of Punjab, since the partition of India.

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 founded the Ittefaq Group and Sharif Group in 1939. Sharif's other son Shehbaz Sharif currently serving as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2024.

Family members

First Generation

• Muhammad Sharif, father of Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif.
  • Begum Shamim Akhtar, wife of Muhammad Sharif and mother of Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and Abbas Sharif. She died on 22 November 2020.

Second Generation

• Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif, was the wife of Nawaz Sharif, and was the First Lady of Pakistan in three non-consecutive terms from 1990 until 1993, from 1996 until 1998 and from 2013 to 2017. She died in London in 2018 after battling cancer.
• Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan and former Chief Minister of Punjab.
  • Begum Nusrat Shahbaz, first wife of Shahbaz Sharif.
  • Tehmina Durrani, second wife of Shahbaz Sharif.
• Abbas Sharif, a Pakistani businessman and brother of Nawaz Sharif and Shabaz Sharif. He died on 11 January 2013, after slipping and falling on an electric heater, which electrocuted him and caused a heart attack.

Third Generation

• Hassan Nawaz Sharif, son of Nawaz Sharif.^[3

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: میاں محمد نواز شریف; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pakistan, having served a total of more than 9 years across three tenures. Each term has ended in his ousting.

He is the elder brother of Shehbaz Sharif, who also served as prime minister of Pakistan from 2022 to 2023 and from 2024 to present.

In 2017, Nawaz was removed from office by the Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding revelations from the Panama Papers case. In 2018, the Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz from holding public office, and he was also sentenced to ten years in prison by an accountability court. Since 2019, Nawaz was in London for medical treatment on bail. He was also declared an absconder by a Pakistani court, however, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted him protective bail till October 24 in the Avenfield and Al-Aziza cases. In 2023, after four years of exile, he returned to Pakistan.

Early life and education

Nawaz was born in Lahore, Punjab, on 25 December 1949. The Sharif family are Kashmiris of Punjab. His father, Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business. They settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab, at the beginning of the twentieth century. His mother's family came from Pulwama. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Nawaz's parents migrated from Amritsar to Lahore. His father followed the teachings of the Ahl-i Hadith. His family owns Ittefaq Group, a multimillion-dollar steel conglomerate, and Sharif Group, a conglomerate with holdings in agriculture, transport and sugar mills. He has two younger brothers: Shehbaz Sharif and the late Abbas Sharif, both politic

American journalist

Amna Nawaz (Urdu: آمنہ نواز) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Geoff Bennett. Before joining PBS in April 2018, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News and NBC News. She has received a number of awards, including an Emmy Award and a Society for Features Journalism award.

Early life and career

Nawaz was born in Virginia on September 18, 1979, to Pakistani parents. Her father, Shuja Nawaz (brother of former Pakistani Army chief Asif Nawaz Janjua), had been a journalist in Pakistan. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. In 2001, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in politics, philosophy, and economics, where she co-captained the women's varsity field hockey team. She holds a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics.

Nawaz's career plan was to become a lawyer but after a fellowship at ABC News, she shifted to journalism. She initially worked for Nightline.

Journalism

Nawaz joined NBC in 2003, later joining Dateline NBC, where she worked on documentaries. At NBC's investigative unit, she was a producer of Mortgage Crisis Investigations, which was nominated for the 2008 Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting.

Nawaz received an International Reporting Project fellowship in 2009. In 2010, she shared a News & Documentary Emmy Award for the NBC News special Inside the Obama White House. Later she was correspondent and bureau chief at NBC's Islamabad bureau.

Nawaz joined ABC News in 2015. She anchored U.S. election and national political coverage in 2016 and 2017. Nawaz also hosted the ABC podcast series Uncomfortable. She jo

Asma Nawaz (born 1996) is a visual artist and art educator currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in Fine Arts from Queen Mary College, Lahore in 2013. She then went on to pursue and complete an MA in Fine Arts and an M.Phil in Sculpture from the College of Art and Design, Punjab University Lahore.

 Asma has exhibited her work locally at numerous art institutions including Shakir Ali Museum, Lahore in 2017; Studio 46, Lahore in 2019; Alhamra Art Council, Lahore in 2019; and also participated in the Lahore Biennale 02, Lahore in 2020.

Select artworks of hers are housed within the permanent collection of the Ambiance Boutique Art Hotels.

Asma Nawaz (born 1996) is a visual artist and art educator currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in Fine Arts from Queen Mary College, Lahore in 2013. She then went on to pursue and complete an MA in Fine Arts and an M.Phil in Sculpture from the College of Art and Design, Punjab University Lahore.

 Asma has exhibited her work locally at numerous art institutions including Shakir... Read more