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Pakistan: Ousted PM Nawaz Sharif’s brother Shahbaz Sharif takes charge of PML-N

Islamabad | ByPress Trust of India
Mar 13, 2018 07:42 PM IST

Shahbaz was elected unopposed as no one filed nomination papers against him during the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) general council meeting

Pakistan’s ruling PML-N on Tuesday elected Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s younger brother, as its president, two weeks after he was appointed as interim chief of the party.

Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan's chief minister of the province of Punjab, poses for a photograph after an interview in Lahore, Pakistan.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan's chief minister of the province of Punjab, poses for a photograph after an interview in Lahore, Pakistan.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Nawaz Sharif was last month also barred from leading a political party following his disqualification by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers scandal in July last year.

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Shahbaz was elected unopposed as no one filed nomination papers against him during the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) general council meeting held here.

Addressing the meeting after his election, Shahbaz thanked the party for its confidence in him but said he could not even think about taking the place of his brother.

“Nawaz Sharif can be considered the political heir of Quaid-i-Azam (Jinnah) and we are lucky to have been blessed with a leader like Nawaz Sharif,” he said.

Nawaz was also present in the meeting and congratulated his younger brother on his election as party chief.

Shahbaz was appointed as interim president on February 27 in a special party meeting which also appointed Nawaz as ‘Quaid’ for life, a symbolic post to honour him.

Analysts believe that Nawaz Sharif still calls the shots and his younger brother would just be a figurehead while real decision making would stay with the ex-premier despite his bar on becoming the legal head of the party.

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