Nawaz Sharif, the only Pakistani politician who has the distinction of being the Prime Minister of the coup-prone country for a record three times, on Thursday managed to avert the ignominy of being forced out for a third time without completing his term. Sharif, who was forced to quit twice in the middle of his term — first by the presidency, then the military — survived a similar fate at the hands of judiciary. Sharif, who leads the country’s most powerful political family and the ruling PMl-N party, successfully managed to swim through all the “tsunamis” since he assumed power for the third term in June 2013.
