While brother Nawaz was often seen as pulling in the crowds, poetry-loving Shehbaz has reputation for capability
He is known as a diligent administrator with such a great love of poetry that he often opens official meetings with recitals of famous revolutionary Urdu poets. After Shehbaz Sharif was appointed as Pakistan’s 23rd prime minister on Monday, his first words to parliament were those from a poem by Ata ul Haq Qasmi, a modern Pakistani poet and commentator, loftily espousing that “one must set himself free, from all bounds of desires”.
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