Pakistan Muslim League (N)

The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (Urdu: (پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ن)‎ (abbr. PML-N) is a centre-right and conservative political party in Pakistan. It is the majority party in the National Assembly following the general election of 2013, with a supermajority in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.

One of several continuing factions of the original Pakistan Muslim League (PML), the PML-N has its origins in the League endorsed by President Zia-ul-Haq in 1985, when Nawaz Sharif was Chief Minister of Punjab. After Zia's death in 1988, the PML-N assumed its present form under the leadership of Sharif, splitting from the PML led by Muhammad Khan Junejo.

The PML-N was one of the two major parties in the Pakistani political system during the 1990s, along with the Pakistan People's Party. It formed the government (as part of conservative alliance Islami Jamhoori Ittehad) from 1990 to 1993, when parliament was dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, and 1997 to 1999, when Prime Minister Sharif was deposed by General Pervez Musharraf in a military coup. It was eclipsed by its own splinter faction, the Musharraf-supported PML-Q, until the elections of 2008, when the PML-N was again elected the principal opposition party. It returned to power following the elections of 2013, with Sharif elected Prime Minister for an unprecedented third term. The party's stronghold is the Punjab province; it has formed provincial government an unsurpassed five times since 1985, thrice under Sharif's brother Shehbaz.