Shahbaz Sharif elected PML-N president
13 March 2018 5:52 PM GMT
Islamabad: 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.
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. 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.
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