Tag: Pakistan's Prime Minister

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...