ISLAMABAD: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has been elected the 24th prime minister of Pakistan after clinching 201 votes, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq announced.

Omer Ayub Khan, the PTI’s candidate for the premier, secured 92 votes.

Sadiq then called Shehbaz to the seat of the Leader of the House. The newly elected prime minister is expected to address the house shortly. Following the announcement, Shehbaz hugged elder brother Nawaz.

Newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that his elder brother has never even thought of harming the country, unlike his opponents.

“They put the entire opposition behind bars, they didn’t care about women or children and used language that cannot be said out loud,” he said on the floor of the National Assembly following the PM’s election.

“This is the difference between this leadership and that leadership […] the entire assembly is witness to the fact that we never thought of the politics of revenge.

“Never was once a pot broken, nor was any building ever damaged […] but it shameful that the country saw a day when GHQ, corps commander houses, air fields were attacked on May 9,” Shehbaz said, adding that such sights are unforgettable.

After being elected the 24th prime minister of Pakistan, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif thanked his elder brother Nawaz and all the allies for putting their trust in him and making him Leader of the House.

As Shehbaz spoke, PTI-backed lawmakers chanted slogans of ‘thief’ from the opposition benches.

“When my quaid was elected the prime minister thrice, the development that followed in the country is an example of its own. And it is not wrong to say that Nawaz Sharif is the one who built Pakistan,” Shehbaz said.

He also stated that the nation would always remember the sacrifices of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.