Sharif family
The Sharif family ( بہت) is a political family from Pakistan, based in the city of Lahore in province of Punjab, Pakistan. The belong to a Bhat Kashmiri tribe, which is a large community living in many districts of Punjab. The Sharif family is settled in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and uses the title of "Mian". 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 in 1939. Muhammad's  other son Shehbaz Sharif is the current Prime Minister of Pakistan. Maryam Nawaz is the daughter of Nawaz Sharif, and is active in politics in Pakistan. She is married to Muhammad Safdar Awan, a former member of Pakistan's national assembly, and captain in the Pakistani army.. She ran elections campaigns for Pakistan Muslim League (N) in the 2013 Pakistani general election, and the 2018 Pakistani general election. In July 2018, she was sentenced to seven years in prison, along with a £2 million fine on corruption charges in the Avenfield reference case. On 19 September 2018, the Islamabad  High Court suspended her sentence. Wealth. The Sharif family owns Ittefaq Group. The village Jati Umrah in Lahore, is also partially owned by the Sharif family. According to the book ‘Capitalism’s Achilles Heel’ by Raymond W Baker, former PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif made financial gains of $418 million during his two terms as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The book is a report on the corruption done by politics’ most dominant mafias/families in history, which includes the Sharif family as well. It talks about how they accumulated their factories, properties and wealth.