Shehbaz Sharif, who is known to be an astute politician and a good administrator, has once again donned the mantle of prime ministership of cash-strapped Pakistan by a quirk of fate and his amicable ties with the powerful establishment in the coup-prone country.
The 72-year-old President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the younger brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, always played the second fiddle to the 74-year-old party supremo, who returned to Pakistan in October last year, in his bid to script history by becoming the premier for a record fourth time in 2024.
However, the outcome of the February 8 elections crushed Nawaz Sharif’s dream of becoming the prime minister for the fourth time.
The PML-N, which was hoping to form a government on its own, won only 75 seats, trailing behind independent candidates backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: in the 336-member National Assembly.
With the election leading to a hung Parliament, the PML-N did not have much of a choice, but to form a coalition government to prevent Khan’s .
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