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PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the 23rd prime minister of Pakistan after 174 lawmakers voted in his favour as Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNAs boycotted the election.

New Pakistan PM raises minimum wage of public employees to Rs25,000

PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif will soon take charge as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, but this throne will be full of challenges for him.

Ahead of taking over as the PM of Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif said that he wants harmony in the country. "We want peace with India, but peace is not possible without resolution of the Kashmir issue," he said.

As no-confidence motion against the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has delayed his ouster, rumours are rife that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari may get appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs when the new government, which will be composed of the present Opposition, takes charge, media reports said.   Bilawal has also said the decisions over the ministerial berths will be taken by the party, Geo News reported.  

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, while addressing the nation on Friday, called the no-confidence motion against his government a “foreign conspiracy”.   The PM said the Supreme Court should have initiated an investigation over the “foreign conspiracy” matter.   While taking about the foreign conspiracy theory, he said that in the meeting between Pakistani ambassador and the US official, the latter said that “I [Imran Khan] should not have visited [Russia].”  

In the midst of the recent political crisis in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, former Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry engaged in a verbal spat with a journalist on Wednesday. Asad Umar, a PTI politician and former Planning and Development Minister, was conducting a press conference outside the Supreme Court when the event occurred.

Pakistan's powerful army said on Sunday that it has "absolutely nothing" to do with the prevailing political situation over the dissolution of NA by President Arif Alvi on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

As a no-confidence motion is going to be held in the National Assembly on Sunday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has claimed his "life is in danger" on Friday, an ANI report citing local media said.   In an interview with ARY News, Khan said, "Let me inform my nation that my life is at risk too, they have also planned for my character assassination. Not only myself but my wife too."  

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that he had credible information that his life was in danger but said that he was not afraid.