Shehbaz Sharif takes oath as Prime Minister today

ISLAMABAD: The oath taking ceremony of the country’s 24th Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be held today (Monday) at the President’s House.

According to scheduled, the swearing-in ceremony will be held at 3 pm in the President’s House while President Dr Arif Alvi will administer the oath to the new prime minister.

According to report, invitations in this regard have been sent to relevant personalities.

Chief of Army Staff and other service chiefs, chief ministers, caretaker prime minister and governors will attend the swearing-in ceremony.

Invitations to Prime Minister’s Shehbaz Sharif oath taking ceremony today were also sent to Asif Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto.

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PML-N party officials and others will also participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the prime minister.

It is pertinent that Shehbaz Sharif became the prime minister of Pakistan for a second time to lead a new eight-party coalition government after he comfortably won a majority in the newly-elected Parliament.

Shehbaz, 72, who was the consensus candidate of the PML-N and PPP received 201 votes in the 336-member house.

Shahbaz’s challenger Omar Ayub Khan of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured 92 votes.

Shehbaz was first sworn in as Pakistan’s prime minister in April 2022, after Imran Khan was dramatically ousted from power in a parliamentary no-confidence vote.