Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif was elected as Pakistan’s 23rd Prime Minister on Monday, a day after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI’s) Imran Khan was ousted from the top post. Shehbaz Sharif elected as Pakistan 23rd Prime Minister.
Shehbaz Sharif is the younger brother of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. During the national assembly session for electing the new Prime Minister, Sharif got a total of 174 votes, two more than 172 needed to be elected.
PTI leader and former Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was also in the race to become the PM, did not get any votes.
Before Shehbaz was elected as the Prime Minister, PTI lawmakers resigned in a move to pressure the new ruling party and its allies to call for elections. And on Sunday, a large number of protests were staged in parts of Pakistan by PTI supporters against the ouster of Khan.
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The protesters including women and children showed their solidarity with Khan during the rally that started at 9 pm on Sunday and lasted till 3 am on Monday.
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