Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been elected as the 18th prime minister of Pakistan, reports Pak media.
Pakistani lawmakers on Tuesday voted to elect a successor to Nawaz Sharif, the longest serving prime minister of Pakistan, after he was disqualified from office last week by the Supreme Court for concealing assets in relation with the Panama Papers case.
The top court disqualified him for failing to declare the ‘receivable’ salary from a UAE-based company of his son in the 2013 nomination paper.
The 13th prime minister of Pakistan has served three separate terms from 1990 to 1993, from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2013 to 2017.
However, he never completed any of the terms as premier and in 2016, the Sharif family was named in the Panama graft scandal.
