With Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification as Pakistan’s Prime Minister by the country’s Supreme Court and his consequent resignation, Sharif joins the ranks of all his predecessors who failed to see their tenure till the end of its term.

Sharif was ordered to demit office by the top court over corruption charges in the Panama Papers case. He has been appointed as the Prime Minister twice before, and on both occasions, he has had to quit office in his third year – in 1993, his government was dissolved by the then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan over charges of “corruption”, and in 1999, he was ousted by General Pervez Musharraf in a bloodless coup.

With his resignation over Panamagate, Sharif failed to break the jinx – no Pakistani Prime Minister has completed a full term in office since its formation in 1947.