Maryam Pakistan Punjab’s first female CM, and also of country

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Senior PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on Monday took oath as the first-ever woman chief minister of Pakistans most populous and politically crucial Punjab province, as also of any province in the country, a development described as a giant leap by her party...

Maryam, the 50-year-old senior vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, took oath as the Punjab chief minister at a ceremony at the Governor House in the presence of her father Nawaz Sharif and uncle Shehbaz Sharif...

She earlier won the chief ministerial elections amidst a walkout by lawmakers of former prime minister Imran Khans party-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC)...

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