Dawood Ahmed :
ISLAMABAD:Â Pakistan Muslim League (N) President, Shehbaz Sharif has been elected as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday evening. He got 174 votes in the house 342. His election has come after the removal of Imran Khan as the PM through vote of no confidence in the parliament.
Earlier, PTI MNAs had walked out of the halls, with Shah Mahmood Qureshi who was the party’s candidate for the top slot announcing that they would be resigning en masse from the NA.
PML-N’s Ayaz Sadiq presided over the session after Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri his conscience did not allow him to conduct the session. “This agenda is against my conscience”, Mr. Suri said while leaving the house.
After taking the chair of the speaker, Sadiq read out the rules and procedure for the election of the prime minister and asked for the bells to rung for five minutes so that all lawmakers could come inside the halls before the voting began.
He said after the bells stopped ringing, the assembly’s entrances and exits would be locked and would remain so until the voting concluded.
