The situation was worsened when Sharif and his daughter Maryam were sentenced to imprisonment on charges of corruption, however their respective sentences were later suspended.

The party however faced a major setback following the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2017. It returned to power following the elections of 2013, with Sharif elected as the Prime Minister for an unprecedented third term.

PML-N regained popularity in the 2008 general elections, when it was elected as the principal opposition party. However, after the 1999 coup, the party was eclipsed by its own splinter faction, the Musharraf-backed Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid), for almost a decade. In 1993, the alliance dissolved and the party assumed its current shape, branding itself as the 'Nawaz' faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, in contrast to the ' Junejo' faction.Īfter its foundation, the PML-N, along with the People's Party, dominated the two-party political system of Pakistan. The alliance formed a government in 1990 under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif. After President Zia's death in 1988, under the leadership of Fida Mohammad Khan, a large faction split away from the Junejo-led Pakistan Muslim League, and formed a conservative alliance with various right-wing and Islamist political parties, called the Islamic Democratic Alliance. One of several continuing factions of the original Muslim League, the seeds of the party were sown following the 1985 Elections when the Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Khan Junejo organised the supporters of President Zia-ul-Haq's dictatorship into a single party, known as the Pakistan Muslim League. Alongside the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), it is one of the three major political parties of the country. Although the party historically supported social conservatism, in recent years, the party’s political ideology and platform has become more liberal on social and cultural issues, however members have been accused of using Islamist populist rhetoric. The party's platform is generally conservative, which involves supporting free markets, deregulation, lower taxes and private ownership.

The party was founded in 1993, when a number of prominent conservative politicians in the country joined hands after the dissolution of Islamic Democratic Alliance, under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate. PML(N) or PML-N) is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ن), romanized: Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) abbr.

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