{"id":336890,"date":"2022-04-11T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=336890"},"modified":"2022-04-12T00:35:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T06:05:36","slug":"shehbaz-sharif-elected-as-new-pm-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shehbaz-sharif-elected-as-new-pm-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehbaz Sharif elected as new PM of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Islamabad :\u00a0 <\/strong>Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, was elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan by Parliament on Monday after rival candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout.<\/p>\n

Shehbaz, Sharif\u00a0 70, was the only candidate left in the race after Qureshi’s boycott of the election in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

In the House of 342, the winning candidate should get support of at least 172 lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Shehbaz, the younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, received 174 votes – two more than the simple majority of 172. He is the 23rd prime minister of Pakistan.<\/p>\n

He has served as chief minister of the country’s most populous and politically crucial Punjab province thrice.<\/p>\n

Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chair Asif Ali Zardari had proposed Shehbaz’s name for prime minister’s position in a joint opposition’s meeting to replace Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion.<\/p>\n

The process of electing the new leader of the House began on Sunday after Prime Minister Imran Khan was removed from office through the no-confidence vote, becoming the first premier in the country’s history to be sent home after losing the trust of the House.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has struggled with political instability since its formation in 1947 with multiple regime changes and military coups. No prime minister has ever completed a full five-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad :\u00a0 Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, was elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan by Parliament on Monday after rival candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout. Shehbaz, Sharif\u00a0 70, was the only candidate left in the race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336892,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336890\/revisions\/336892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}