Shehbaz Sharif 'elected' Pakistan PM weeks after disputed polls
File photo of Pakistan's prime minister-elect Shehbaz Sharif in country's National Assembly
Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader and brother of the three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, managed to win enough votes in the National Assembly to be the country's 25th prime minister weeks after the February 8 elections were held in the backdrop of violence, snapped internet and widespread accusations of rigging.
The vote in the National Assembly was held amid widespread uproar and sloganeering by the PTI-backed lawmakers who have accused that their 'mandate' has been stolen to prevent Imran Khan from returning to power.
The PTI-backed candidates put up Omar Ayub Khan, the grandson of former Pakistani military ruler Ayub Khan, as the prime ministerial candidate.
Shehbaz Sharif got 201 votes in his favour while Omar Ayub Khan won 92 votes.
Sharifregained the top job after his party buried the differences with the powerful military.
At the time, Nawaz Sharif was in self-imposed exile in London and disqualified from holding public office. He returned to Pakistan in October.
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Before his stint as prime minister, the younger Sharif was known more as an administrator than a politician, having served as chief minister thrice in the country's largest province, Punjab.
The elections concluded after imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was stripped of its election symbol 'bat', following which the PTI candidates went to polls as independents.
Still, the Khan-backed bloc of thecandidates together comprised 93 of 264 seats. This was followed by 80 seats won by Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and 54by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
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Shehbaz Sharif was earlier named Pakistan's prime minister after Imran Khan was ousted from power following a parliamentary no-trust-vote in April 2022. He served as PM until August 2023 when the caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul-Haq Kakar took over. Sharif is the joint prime ministerial candidate of the PML(N) and the PPP.