Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif submits nomination to become new PM

Youthful brother of three-times Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif, 70, led the opposition efforts that toppled Imran Khan.

Pakistan's opposition chief, Shehbaz Sharif, leaves the Supreme Court docket constructing in Islamabad on April 7, 2022 [Aamir Qureshi/AFP]

Pakistan opposition politician Shehbaz Sharif has submitted his nomination to be the nation’s subsequent prime minister.

The youthful brother of three-times prime minister Nawaz Sharif, 70-year-old Shehbaz led the opposition efforts in parliament that finally toppled now former Prime Minister Imran Khan within the early hours of Sunday morning.

After submitting his nomination to the legislature on Sunday, Shehbaz mentioned Khan’s departure was an opportunity for a brand new starting in Pakistan. Shehbaz, the centrist Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) occasion chief, is broadly anticipated to be named the nation’s new prime minister on Monday.

“A brand new daybreak has began … This alliance will rebuild Pakistan,” Shehbaz instructed parliament on Sunday. His first duties shall be to restore relations with the highly effective army in addition to america, and have a tendency to a faltering economic system.

Khan had antagonised the US all through his tenure, welcoming the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan final yr and extra just lately accusing Washington of being behind the try to take away him. Washington dismissed the accusation.

Khan’s occasion has additionally nominated the previous international minister as a major ministerial candidate, saying their members of parliament would resign en masse ought to he lose, doubtlessly creating the necessity for pressing by-elections for his or her seats.

The primary Pakistani prime minister to be eliminated by a no-confidence vote, Khan had clung on for nearly every week after a united opposition first tried to take away him.

On Sunday, he repeated allegations that a international conspiracy was behind a conspiracy of regime change in Pakistan.

“The liberty wrestle begins once more at present,” he mentioned by way of his Twitter account, which is adopted by greater than 15 million and nonetheless describes him as prime minister of Pakistan in his biography part.