Shehbaz Sharif: Pakistan Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif, the 70-year-old younger brother of former three-time Pakista PM Nawaz Sharif, has been nominated as the joint candidate for the prime minister’s election, scheduled today.
On the other hand, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) has nominated Shah Mahmood Qureshi as their candidate. The voting on the no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government was held in the country’s National Assembly late on Saturday night where 174 members recorded their votes in favour of the resolution that ousted the Pakistan PM Imran Khan.
The 70-year-old, a former 3-term chief minister of Punjab, also thanked several others, who, he said, ‘did not allow any pressure to dent their loyalty and commitment to the party and Pakistan.’ He tweeted, “I also cannot forget Salman Rafique, Kamran Michael, Miftah Ismael & Qamarul Islam whose steadfastness and sacrifices in the face of the brutal Niazi-NAB nexus have been legendary.”
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If elected, which he is most likely to since the numbers are with the united opposition, Sharif will be Pakistan’s twenty-third premier, and second from his family, after Nawaz Sharif, who served three terms, and is currently in exile in London. Incidentally, no Pakistani Prime Minister has completed a full five-year term yet.
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