Pakistan’s parliament elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new Prime Minister

Kathmandu: Pakistan’s parliament elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new PM after Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote over the weekend.

Lawmakers from Khan’s party resigned in protest.

Sharif is the brother of former PM Nawaz Sharif who was convicted of corruption in 2018.

Imran Khan became the first Pakistani prime minister to be removed after losing a no-confidence motion in the assembly. In his first reaction since his ouster as prime minister, Khan said, even though the country became an independent state in 1947, the freedom struggle has begun again against a foreign conspiracy of regime change.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chief has alleged foreign conspiracy responsible for toppling his government on several occasions. The opposition got 174 votes against the majority mark of 172 in the 342-member Pakistan assembly.

Meanwhile, the PTI has decided to submit en masse resignations in the National Assembly. In a tweet, Senior party leader Fawad Chaudhry announced that the PTI has decided to resign from the assemblies and this process will start from the National Assembly after the election of the Prime Minister today.