Nawaz Sharif's daughter elected to head Pakistan's Punjab, seen as stepping stone

Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of Pakistan's three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was elected on Monday as the head of the country's most populous province, Punjab, in a move underlining the expanding grip of the family in the South Asian nation. Maryam, 50, her father's political heir, is the first woman to be chief minister

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