Date formed 7 June 2013 Head of state Mamnoon Hussain Opposition party Pakistan Peoples Party | Head of government Nawaz Sharif Status in legislature Simple majority | |
Member party Pakistan Muslim League (N) | ||
The third Sharif ministry was formed at noon PST on 5 June 2013 when Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif became the prime minister of Pakistan for the third time. Sharif successfully led the right-of-centre and conservative PML-N to acquire a simple majority, after failing to acquire an overall two-thirds majority, in the 2013 general election against the leftist Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the centrist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
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Government formation
Following the 2013 general election, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) won a plurality of seats in the National Assembly through a simple majority, after failing to secure an overall two-thirds majority. In order to form a government, the PML-N joined in coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League (F) (PML-F) and the National Peoples Party (NPP).
2013—
On 7 June 2013, Sharif's cabinet of 25 ministers was sworn into office which included 16 federal ministers and nine ministers of state. Most of the ministers in Sharif's cabinet were from Punjab which is a political stronghold of the PML-N with one member each from the PML-F and NPP also included in the cabinet. The cabinet included 19 ministers from Punjab, three from Sindh, two from Balochistan and one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – only two of which were women.