{"id":1431416,"date":"2022-04-11T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431416"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:30:12","slug":"brother-of-imran-khans-predecessor-elected-pakistan-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brother-of-imran-khans-predecessor-elected-pakistan-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Imran Khan\u2019s Predecessor Elected Pakistan Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrother-of-imran-khans-predecessor-elected-pakistan-prime-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Parliament of Pakistan speedily elected Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to replace the ousted Imran Khan on Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lawmakers from Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) resigned from the lower house of parliament en masse to protest the vote to put Sharif in the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Khan was pushed out with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/09\/pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-ousted-by-no-confidence-vote\/\"><span>no-confidence vote<\/span><\/a><span> on Sunday in a marathon 13-hour session of parliament. This maintained Pakistan\u2019s unenviable 75-year streak of never allowing a prime minister to complete his term, although Khan is the first to lose his office after a vote of no confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The vote was close when 174 lawmakers <\/span><span>voted<\/span><span> to remove Khan from office, two more than necessary. The PTI attempted to stall the vote by repeating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/imran-khan-pakistan-prime-minister-loses-vote-of-no-confidence-12585867\"><span>Khan\u2019s claim<\/span><\/a><span> that the government of the United States was staging a legislative coup against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Less hysterical observers noted that Khan lost the support of almost everyone outside PTI by mismanaging economic policy and foreign policy, and perhaps most crucially losing the support of Pakistan\u2019s powerful military establishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Sharif stood for election <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-61063386\"><span>unopposed<\/span><\/a><span> after PTI lawmakers announced their resignations to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/imran-khan-s-pti-to-boycott-pak-national-assembly-session-for-election-of-new-pm-101649669662277.html\"><span>boycott the vote<\/span><\/a><span>, knocking Sharif\u2019s chief rival Shah Mahmood Qureshi out of contention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sharif, one year older than the 69-year-old Khan, is the brother of 72-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Nawaz-Sharif\"><span>Nawaz Sharif<\/span><\/a><span>, who served three terms as prime minister (none of them to completion, in accordance with Pakistani political tradition\u00a0\u2014 his final term ended in 2017 when he was forced to resign by a corruption investigation).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nawaz Sharif, who has been living in London since 2019, released a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/nawaz-sharif-pleased-imran-khan-dismissal-pakistan-pm-1935830-2022-04-10\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> through his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party on Sunday saying he was \u201chappy\u201d about Khan\u2019s removal from office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A crowd of Sharif supporters assembled outside of his London residence to share his happiness on Sunday, but they were met by a decidedly unhappy crowd of PTI supporters and the police were obliged to step in and separate them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A senior PML-N official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/pakistan-political-crisis-imran-khan-pakistan-news-nawaz-sharif-to-return-to-pakistan-from-london-next-month-party-leader-2877277\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday that Nawaz Sharif would return to Pakistan after the Muslim holiday of Eid next month to face the remaining court proceedings for his corruption allegations. He was permitted to move to London for medical reasons in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Shehbaz Sharif is the former chief minister of Punjab, the most heavily populated province in Pakistan. He developed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/pakistan\/whos-shehbaz-sharif-pakistans-new-prime-minister\/articleshow\/90780924.cms\"><span>reputation<\/span><\/a><span> for efficiency, business acumen, and a \u201ccan-do\u201d leadership style. His first term as Punjab chief minister was interrupted by a 1999 coup whose leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, took control of the entire country and forced most of the Sharif family into exile. Shehbaz Sharif returned to Punjab in 2007 and went on to become the longest-serving chief minister of the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Khan and his supporters loathe the Sharif dynasty, which is haunted by widespread allegations of corruption. Shehbaz Sharif was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/world-news\/shehbaz-sharif-a-hard-core-realist-who-makes-no-bones-while-performing-onerous-tasks\/articleshow\/90760006.cms?from=mdr\"><span>indicted<\/span><\/a><span> for money laundering by Khan\u2019s government in September 2020 and is technically still out on bail pending trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sharif has good relations with the Pakistani military, give or take one coup 23 years ago. According to Sharif, there were no hard feelings even at the time because Gen. Musharraf offered to make him prime minister, but he declined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sharif also has good relations with Communist China, Pakistan\u2019s powerful patron. As chief minister of Punjab, he was applauded for overseeing the completion of several large Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. Sharif <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/11\/pakistan-live-updates-parliament-set-to-elect-new-pm-liveblog\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday he would prioritize the completion of BRI projects in Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese state media <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesnownews.com\/world\/is-shehbaz-sharif-as-pakistan-pm-good-news-for-india-or-china-article-90778980\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday that \u201ccooperation between the two countries could be even better than under Khan,\u201d who was dismissed as an insincere partner for Beijing because he opposed Belt and Road\u2019s $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) early in his career. Khan\u2019s recent fulsome praise for Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, and even his support for China\u2019s oppression of the Uyghur Muslims, did not earn him much of a fond farewell from Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pakistan\u2019s regional rival India ventured some cautious optimism for Sharif as well. India-Pakistan relations hit rock bottom under Khan\u2019s tenure, but Sharif said on Monday he looked forward to \u201cgood relations with India,\u201d provided the situation in the disputed province of Kashmir is resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ll advise [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi to understand that there is poverty on both sides. I call upon Modi to come and resolve the Jammu and Kashmir issue and then let\u2019s fight poverty together,\u201d Sharif said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sharif dismissed Khan\u2019s theories of a foreign-backed legislative coup as nonsense and offered to resign if Khan can prove his allegations. PML-N officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/11\/world\/asia\/pakistan-shehbaz-sharif-prime-minister.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> they envisioned Sharif\u2019s tenure as temporary in any event, an interim administration until elections can be held later this year, when they hope to have electoral reforms in place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliament of Pakistan speedily elected Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to replace the ousted Imran Khan on Monday. 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