Alexei Kosygin vs Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Kosygin became Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Premier) in October 1964 after Khrushchev's ouster. He served as head of government for 16 years, overseeing the Soviet economy and foreign policy during the Brezhnev era.

Kosygin launched economic reforms in September 1965 aimed at decentralizing the Soviet economy. The reforms gave enterprises more autonomy, reduced central planning, and introduced profit incentives, but were largely abandoned by the early 1970s due to bureaucratic resistance.

Kosygin supported the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, which crushed the Prague Spring reforms. He participated in negotiations with Czechoslovak leaders, justifying the intervention as necessary to preserve socialism in the Eastern Bloc.

Kosygin resigned as Premier in October 1980 due to declining health. He was replaced by Nikolai Tikhonov, ending his 16-year tenure as head of the Soviet government. He died two months later, on December 18, 1980.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was appointed as the 21st Prime Minister of Pakistan on August 1, 2017, after Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court. He was a PML-N loyalist and completed the remainder of Sharif's term.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi served as Prime Minister until May 31, 2018, completing the five-year term of the PML-N government. His tenure focused on infrastructure projects and economic stability, but was overshadowed by the Panama Papers case.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was arrested on July 18, 2019, by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with alleged corruption in the LNG import contract. He was accused of causing losses to the national exchequer through illegal approvals.