KARACHI, Pakistan : Pakistan’s parliament on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif, the three-time chief minister of the key province of Punjab, as the country’s new prime minister.
Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, grabbed the office following a successful no-confidence vote in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, against his predecessor, Imran Khan, on Sunday.
The 70-year-old cancer survivor was pivotal in the opposition’s push to topple Khan’s government.
Born on Sept. 23, 1951 to a Punjabi-speaking Kashmiri family in the northeastern city of Lahore, the capital of Punjab, Shehbaz is known as a “tough administrator” who according to some analysts knows the “art to govern.”
“He is not a genius but extremely hard-working,” said Taseer Mustafa, a Lahore-based journalist who has worked as Shehbaz’s media adviser.
“He covers the gap (of not being a genius) through his hard work,” Mustafa told Anadolu Agency.— AA