MojNews-National Assembly of Pakistan elected Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister of the country. 

Speaker of the National Assembly the lower house of the parliament, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq announced that Sharif, president of PML-N, won the election by securing the lower house's 201 votes out of the total 293 votes cast in Sunday's polling.

Sharif's sole competitor Omar Ayub Khan, a joint candidate of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, secured 92 votes, said the speaker.

The speaker announced that Sharif had been declared as the prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

A total of 169 votes were required through division of the house election in the 336-member National Assembly. Sharif got votes from PML-N, Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and other allies.

Earlier on Friday, the members of the National Assembly elected Sadiq as speaker of the house and Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah as his deputy after the new house was formed following the country's general election held on Feb. 8, 2024.