Shahbaz Sharif becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time, coalition government will be formed.
Shahbaz Sharif is going to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time. He will be administered the oath of office at Rashtrapati Bhavan Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday.
Shahbaz Sharif is going to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan once again. Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday became the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time to lead the coalition government after securing a comfortable majority in the newly elected Parliament. After voting on Sunday, he was elected Prime Minister. 72-year-old Shehbaz, who was the unanimous candidate of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), got 201 votes in the 336-member House.
Shahbaz’s rival Omar Ayub Khan of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got 92 votes. The new Parliament session was called amid uproar and sloganeering by PTI-backed MPs. Shahbaz will be administered the oath of office at Rashtrapati Bhavan Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday.
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PML-N led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has received the support of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to lead the coalition government after the elections held on February 8 in the country. Apart from PPP, Shehbaz Sharif has the support of MQM-P and other parties.
In the general elections, independent candidates supported by PTI party had won the maximum 93 seats of the National Assembly. PML-N won 75 seats and PPP won 54 seats. Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) had won 17 seats.
Let us tell you that before the dissolution of Parliament to conduct general elections in Pakistan, Shahbaz served as the Prime Minister of the coalition government from April 2022 to August 2023.
The PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had endorsed his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif and party loyalist Sardar Ayaz Sadiq for the posts of prime minister and speaker of the national assembly, respectively. Shehbaz has earlier led a coalition government for 16 months till August 2023.
As part of the PML-N-PPP alliance deal, it was decided that Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, would be the chief minister of Punjab province. Maryam, the political heir of Nawaz, took the oath on Monday and became the first woman chief minister of any province in the country.
The other part of the deal stipulated that PPP’s senior leader, former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari, would get the President’s post.
Shahbaz Sharif becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan, addressed various issues in his first speech
Shehbaz Sharif was on Sunday elected as the next prime minister of Pakistan. The ruling coalition of the PML(N), PPP and other small outfits picked him as the prime minister unanimously in Pakistan’s National Assembly. In his maiden speech after the election, he appealed to his country’s parliament to pass a resolution on the “freedom of Kashmiris and Palestianians”. He, however, later made an embarrassing remark reflecting the dire financial situation of the cash-strapped country.
Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday called out the ‘global silence’ on the prevailing situation in Gaza, where thousands of citizens have died since October 7 in Israel’s counterattack to Hamas’ terror strike.
He also mentioned the controversial topic of Kashmir.
Shehbaz Sharif, in his victory speech, talked about passing resolutions in the National Assembly, Pakistan’s parliament.
“Let’s all come together…and the National Assembly should pass a resolution for the freedom of Kashmiris and Palestinians,” he said. In the same speech, however, he claimed that the expenditure of the National Assembly is being met from borrowed money.
“All of these (expenses for running the House) are being met via loans over the last few years. This is the biggest challenge faced by the country today,” he said.