Even a cursory analysis of the three Nawaz Sharif sackings as PM reveals one constant sordid fact, his incurring penchant to listen to a bunch of "unelectable advisors" who constantly feed his already inflated ego about his supposed omni-potency. The 1993 sacking did him wonders, turning an Establishment "puppet on the throne" into a politician of some standing in his own right. In the second sacking in 1999 the Army swiftly countered Nawaz's civilian coup, the Punjab CM brother Shahbaz Sharif was put into handcuffs lost out for no fault of his own. Shahbaz survived the last sacking in 2017 a year ago, giving the workaholic a unique opportunity to show off his development projects, mostly in Lahore, and shrug of Nawaz's charismatic giant shadow to lead a political life of his own. Maryam had nothing to do with Nawaz's second sacking, everything to do with his third.
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