Chairman of Tehreek –e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has been voted to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Asad Qaisar, Speaker of National Assembly declared the name of the Leader of the House after counting of the votes.
Imran Khan bagged in 176 votes Shehbaz Sharif candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz got 96 votes in the polling for the Leader of the House in the National Assembly of the 342 seat on Friday.
Khan required a simple majority of 172 votes to come to power.
Former Indian cricket star Navjot Singh Sidhu is also among the special guests invited by Khan’s team to attend the ceremony.
Khan, who famously captained the national cricket team to World Cup glory in 1992, has also invited some of his former teammates to witness his formal ascension to the top ministerial job in the country.
The PTI emerged as the single largest party with 116 seats in July 25 elections. Its number increased to 125 after nine independent members joined it and final tally reached 158 after it was allotted 28 out of 60 seats reserved for women and five out of 10 seats reserved for minorities.
Khan’s government will be the third consecutive democratic government in Pakistan since 2008 when military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf announced elections after serving as president from 2001 to 2008 following a bloodless coup in 1999.
The Pakistan Peoples Party formed the government in 2008, followed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz led by jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 2013.
Pakistan’s powerful military has ruled the country through various coups for nearly half of the country’s history since independence in 1947.
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