Shehbaz Sharif took oath as the 24th Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday. President Arif Alvi regulated the oath to the 72-year-old Shehbaz in a ceremony held at the Aiwan-i-Sadr, the presidential residence.
The oath-taking ceremony happened as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party agreed on a power-sharing deal to form a coalition government.
Earlier, Shehbaz served as prime minister of a coalition government from April 2022 to August 2023 before Parliament was dissolved to hold general elections last month.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and other PML-N workers attended the ceremony.
PPP leader and Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah was also present on the occasion. Shehbaz won a majority in the newly-elected Parliament on Sunday.
Shehbaz, the candidate of the PML-N and the PPP, received 201 votes in the 336-member Parliament.
However, his challenger Omar Ayub Khan of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured 92 votes.
In the February 8 polls, the Sharifs-led party failed to get a clear majority, but it is the largest party with 75 out of the 265 contested seats.
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