Shahbaz Sharif lined up for Pakistan leadership
By Reuters
01 August 2017 |
8:00 am
Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is lining up his brother to take over the country's leadership, and it's almost guaranteed to happen. But Shahbaz Sharif is no carbon copy of his older brother.
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