Islamabad - The NAB court on Friday convicted ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif in absentia and sentenced him to 10 years in prison, in what seemed to be the end of a long and tumultuous political career of the three-time leader.
Here are some of the highlights
of Sharif's career
1949 - Nawaz Sharif is born into a Kashmiri family of industrialists in Lahore. He later graduates with a law degree from Punjab University and goes to work in the family steel business
1976 - Enters politics, joining the Pakistan Muslim League after the Sharif family steel business was nationalised under the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the beginning of a long political rivalry between the families.
1981 - Joins the Punjab cabinet as finance minister, becoming Punjab's chief minister in 1985. The PML later split and Nawaz formed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
1990 - First elected prime minister.
1993 - Removed as prime minister by the president. He is reinstated by Supreme Court but then resigns under pressure and his party loses elections to the Pakistan People's Party of Benazir Bhutto.
1997 - Elected prime minister for second time. During his term, Pakistan successfully tests nuclear weapons in response to regional rival India's atomic programme.
1999 - Overthrown in a military coup by General Pervez Musharraf. After the coup, he was convicted of corruption and given a life sentence for hijacking over an incident when he ordered Musharraf's plane not to land in Islamabad.
2000-2007 - Allowed to go into exile in Saudi Arabia in 2000 amid reports of a deal with the military, he was given a presidential pardon the day his family left.
2007 - Returns from exile to contest elections the next year as part of a political deal that ended Musharraf's military rule.
2008 - Loses election to the party of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated ahead of the polls.
2013 - Elected prime minister for third time.
April 4, 2016 - The leaked Panama Papers show involvement of Sharif's family in offshore companies including two used to buy luxury homes in London.
Oct. 28, 2016 - Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan threatens to paralyse the capital, Islamabad, with a "lockdown" of street protests unless demands for an independent investigation into the Panama revelations are met. Sharif denies any wrongdoing.
Nov 2, 2016 - Supreme Court agrees to set up a judicial commission to probe corruption allegations against Sharif, stemming from Panama Papers leaks. Khan backs down from lockdown threat.
July 28, 2017 - Supreme Court declares Sharif disqualified from office for not declaring income from a company in United Arab Emirates, which was not in original Panama Papers revelations. The court also orders NAB to open a criminal trial into ownership of the London flats along with several other Panama Papers revelations.
April 13, 2018 - The Supreme Court further rules Sharif is banned from political office for life.
July 6, 2018 - The NAB court convicts Sharif of corruption and sentences him in absentia to 10 years in prison.