Shehbaz Sharif, frontrunner as next Pak PM, seen as 'can-do' administrator

As chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, Sharif planned and executed a number of ambitious infrastructure mega-projects

Shehbaz Sharif, the person most likely to be Pakistan's next prime minister, is little known outside his home country but has a reputation domestically as an effective administrator more than as a politician.
 

The younger brother of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz, 70, led a successful bid by the opposition in parliament to topple Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote early on Sunday that Khan's supporters tried for hours to block.

Analysts say Shehbaz, unlike Nawaz, enjoys amicable relations with Pakistan's military, which traditionally controls foreign and defence policy in the nuclear-armed nation of 220 million people.
 

Pakistan's generals have