New Delhi: After ousting Imran Khan from Pakistan Prime Minister's chair, opposition parties have nominated Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz as their joint candidate for the prime minister’s election.
According to a report by ARY News, Shehbaz Sharif has been selected by the opposition parties in the country to take over the charge of the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Pakistan will have a new Prime Minister on Monday when the National Assembly, which was adjourned in the early hours of Sunday, reconvenes to elect a new head of the government after Imran Khan was ousted from office through a no-confidence vote, becoming the first premier in the country's history to suffer this ignominy.
The marathon proceedings of the National Assembly, Parliament's lower house, were adjourned in the early hours of Sunday to meet again on Monday at 2 pm to elect the new prime minister.
Shehbaz Sharif, who is set to be the next prime minister of Pakistan after the unceremonious ouster of Imran Khan is the 70-year-old younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has served as chief minister of the country's most populous and politically crucial Punjab province thrice.
This is the first time his party PML-N - especially its supremo Nawaz Sharif - agreed on his name for the post of prime minister.
Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chair Asif Ali Zaradri 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.