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  Work ahead is 'difficult' but not 'impossible', says PM-elect Shehbaz in victory speech amid opposition protest... Shehbaz Sharif becomes 24th PM in rucks-hit session after obtaining 201 votes; rival PTI-SIC candidate Omar Ayub Khan bags 92 votes... Shehbaz thanks Nawaz for nominating him for PM slot. Shehbaz says his party never indulged in political victimisation. Omar Ayub dubs PM-elect a “product” of Form 47. ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Sunday elected Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's ( PML-N ) Shehbaz Sharif as the 24th elected prime minister of the country in a session hit by the ruckus created by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( PTI )-backed Sunni Ittehad Council ( SIC ) members. " Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has been elected prime minister with 201 votes. [While] Omar Ayub obtained 92 votes," announced Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. The speaker then invited Shehbaz, the only politician to be elected as the PM for the second consecutive time , to...

  A timeline of Pakistan's elected prime ministers Shehbaz Sharif is also the only leader to be elected to the top office for the second consecutive time.. Shehbaz Sharif became Pakistan's 24th prime minister after the National Assembly elected him for the top post with a thumping majority as the opposition fell short in votes. Shehbaz is also the only leader to be elected to the top office for the second consecutive time.   While hoping that democracy prospers , we also see that no prime minister in the country's chequered history has completed their tenure. If each prime minister, since 1947 , was allowed to complete their five-year term, Shehbaz would have been Pakistan’s 17th premier. Instead, he is the country’s 24th prime minister. Liaquat Ali Khan (4 years in office) Pakistan's first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was elected on August 15, 1947. Barely four years in office before he was assassinated on October 16, 1951, in Rawalpindi.   Khawaja Nazim...