{"id":96960,"date":"2022-04-12T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T06:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=96960"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:31:27","slug":"shehbaz-sharif-elected-as-23rd-prime-minister-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/shehbaz-sharif-elected-as-23rd-prime-minister-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehbaz Sharif elected as 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shehbaz Sharif was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday, bringing to an end the political uncertainty that had gripped the country since a no-confidence motion was introduced against his predecessor Imran Khan on March 8. The 70-year old&nbsp;Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N)&nbsp;Chief will succeed&nbsp;Imran Khan,&nbsp;who has been removed by a no-trust vote recently in the National Assembly. Shehbaz Sharif is the brother of former Pakistan Prime Minister&nbsp;Nawaz Sharif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shehbaz, the younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, received 174 votes \u2014 two more than the simple majority of 172.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharif said a selected prime minister was removed using constitutional and legal means, the first time a PM was removed through a no-confidence motion. He has served as chief minister of the country\u2019s most populous and politically crucial Punjab province thrice. Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chair Asif Ali Zardari had proposed Shehbaz\u2019s name for the prime minister\u2019s position in a joint opposition meeting to replace Khan through a no-confidence motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehbaz Sharif was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday, bringing to an end the political uncertainty that had gripped the country since a no-confidence motion was introduced against his predecessor Imran Khan on March 8. The 70-year old&nbsp;Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N)&nbsp;Chief will succeed&nbsp;Imran Khan,&nbsp;who has been removed by a no-trust vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":96984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[4933,3842,3843],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-96960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2022","tag-appointments-current-affairs","tag-minister-of-pakistan","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96985,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960\/revisions\/96985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96960"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=96960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}