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Lahore: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of Pakistans three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was elected on Monday as the head of the countrys most populous province, Punjab, in a move underlining the expanding grip of the family in the South Asian nation...
Maryam, 50, her fathers political heir, is the first woman to be chief minister of Punjab a post that has long been a stepping stone to becoming the countrys prime minister...
She secured 220 votes in the 371-seat provincial assembly, the Punjab assembly speaker said has he announced the results of the election that was boycotted by the opposition Sunni Ittehad Council party backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan...
Maryam is the fourth member of her family to become the chief minister of Punjab, which accounts for 53% of Pakistans 241 million population and 60 percent of its $350 billion GDP..
Born on Oct. 28, 1973 in the eastern city of Lahore into a wealthy industrialist family, she married Safdar Awan, an army officer who was serving as a personal secretary to his father in his second term as prime minister in 1992...
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