Shehbaz Sharif elected Pakistan's prime minister for a secon

PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif emerged as Pakistan's 24th Prime Minister on Sunday with 201 votes, according to National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. Omer Ayub Khan, the Imran Khan-backed PTI premier candidate, received 92 votes. Shehbaz hugged his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's three-time former prime minister, after the announcement.

“When my quaid [brother] was elected the prime minister thrice, the development that followed in the country is an example of its own. And it is not wrong to say that Nawaz Sharif is the one who built Pakistan,” Shehbaz said in his victory speech.

Shehbaz also thanked his party's allies, including the PPP, for putting their trust in him and appointing him Leader of the House. As Shehbaz spoke, PTI-backed lawmakers chanted 'thief' slogans from the opposition benches.The recently concluded general elections were marred by allegations of widespread vote rigging. Imran Khan's PTI has claimed that several PML-N and PPP candidates were declared winners despite receiving the most votes, according to TOI.

Many PTI leaders also condemned the election authorities for ' stealing' the people's mandate.
Independent candidates won 93 National Assembly seats, with the majority of them supported by 71-year-old imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. The PML-N won 75 seats, with the PPP finishing third with 54. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) holds seventeen seats.

Several leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have strongly criticized the election authorities for allegedly 'stealing' the mandate of the people. In the recent elections, independent candidates - who were mostly backed by Imran Khan's PTI party - secured 93 seats in the National Assembly. Meanwhile, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 75 seats, and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) came in third with 54 seats. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) secured 17 seats in the assembly. To form a government, a party needs to win at least 133 out of the 265 contested seats in the 266-member National Assembly.

(with inputs from agencies)