After being elected as the 24th premier of Pakistan on Sunday, PM-elect Shehbaz Sharif vowed to steer the country \u201cback to shore\u201d with the help of allied parties in his second tenure in the top office.
\nShehbaz won the prime minister\u2019s election today after clinching 201 votes against his PTI-backed opponent from the Sunni Ittehdad Council (SIC) Omar Ayub Khan, who managed to secure 92 votes.
\nFollowing the announcement by National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Shehbaz hugged his elder brother and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who was widely expected to become the prime minister following the Feb 8 elections but stepped aside for reasons unknown in favour of his sibling.
\nIn his first speech on the floor of the newly elected house as the PM-elect, Shehbaz said that big challenges lay ahead in Pakistan\u2019s path but they could be overcome \u201cif we come together and decide to change the country\u2019s fate\u201d by taking it to its rightful position.
\nAs he thanked his brother and allied parties for posing their trust in him by electing him as the leader of the house again, PTI-backed lawmakers from the SIC chanted slogans from the opposition benches, calling the siblings \u201cthieves\u201d \u2014 possibly a reference to their claim that the PML-N stole the mandate given to them by the public.
\n\u201cThere are talented people sitting in this Parliament who can steer Pakistan\u2019s ship to the shore [\u2026] including journalists, intellectuals, politicians, religious leaders,\u201d Shehbaz added.
\nHe asserted that PML-N and coalition parties would play their role as \u201cPakistanis, Muslims, and human beings\u201d to steer the country out of the crisis it currently faces even though the \u201cjob is difficult but not impossible\u201d.
\n\u201cWhen my leader (Nawaz) was elected the prime minister thrice, the development that ensued in the country is an example of its own. And it is not wrong to say that Nawaz Sharif is the one who built Pakistan,\u201d Shehbaz said.
\nThe PM-elect also paid tribute to close ally PPP\u2019s founding leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged to death in the past, saying the nation would always \u201cremember his sacrifices\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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