{"id":15352,"date":"2024-03-03T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15352"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:36:11","slug":"shehbaz-sharif-elected-as-pakistans-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/shehbaz-sharif-elected-as-pakistans-new-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehbaz Sharif Elected as Pakistan\u2019s New PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s parliament on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country\u2019s 24th prime minister for a second term, three weeks after the February 8 national vote.<br \/>\nShehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and president of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) grabbed 201 votes in the lower house or the National Assembly, 32 higher than the number required for a simple majority.<br \/>\nHe defeated his rival Omer Ayub Khan of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, who secured 92 votes.<br \/>\nA candidate requires 169 votes in a 336-member house to clinch the coveted post by a simple majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Pakistan&#8217;s parliament on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country\u2019s 24th prime minister for a second term, three weeks after the February 8 national vote. Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and president of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) grabbed 201 votes in the lower house or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15354,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352\/revisions\/15354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}