The PML-N has announced Shehbaz Sharif, the head of the party, as its nominee for Pakistan's prime minister

The PML-N has announced Shehbaz Sharif, the head of the party, as its nominee for Pakistan's prime minister

The speech is in honor of the Punjab Province Minister

Surprisingly, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Tuesday selected its president Shehbaz Sharif to replace party leader and three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif as the next prime minister of Pakistan.

In his address to the X, Nawaz Sharif, the 74-year-old leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), said that he has nominated his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif, 72, for prime minister as well as his daughter Maryam Nawaz, 50, for premier, Minister of Punjab Province.

"Nawaz Sharif expressed gratitude to the political parties supporting PML-N (in forming the next government) as well as expressed his optimism that such decisions will bring Pakistan out of the crisis," he said.

The event occurred only hours after Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), announced his party's decision to support former prime minister Nawaz without becoming a member of the new administration.

Five days after the general elections, questions over the makeup of Pakistan's future government loomed large, but the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party surprised everyone by capturing the most seats in Parliament despite independent candidates supported by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

In the general elections on February 8, none of the three main parties—the PML-N, PPP, or PTI—were able to secure enough seats in the National Assembly to create a majority. As a result, a hung parliament will result.

There are reports that the strong Pakistani military supports the PML-N.

After the PPP's powerful Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting, which he chaired, Bilawal gave a news conference here and said that his party's mandate to form the federal government is in fact lacking.

The 35-year-old former foreign secretary said, "Because of this, I will not put myself forward for the nomination of Prime Minister of Pakistan," pointing out that the PML-N and independents suffer from a majority at the Center.

Nawaz will serve as prime minister for a record-tying fourth term, as former prime minister Shehbaz revealed earlier in the day.

During a news conference, Shahbaz said, "I had predicted that Nawaz Sharif would become prime minister four times. And I continue to support the idea that he will be prime minister for a fourth time today."

Shehbaz claimed to have congratulated Bilawal and his father Asif Ali Zardari for their backing of Nawaz Sharif in a conversation with them.

"We hope that together we going to be able to lead Pakistan through of all political and economic troubles, Inshallah," he said in a tweet.

On Tuesday, the PML-N and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) met to discuss the formation of the government.

After agreeing to proceed with mutual collaboration, Shehbaz Sharif expressed gratitude to the MQM-P, which has 17 MLAs in Parliament, for its support.

According to Bilawal, the PML-N was the only party that extended an invitation to the PPP to join the government, as Imran Khan's PTI had declined to form a coalition with the PPP.

Khan referred to Pakistan's major political parties as the "biggest money launderers" who helped him win power on Tuesday and dismissed the notion of establishing a coalition government with them.

Speaking to media in the high-security Adiala prison in Rawalpindi, PTI founder Khan, 71, was discussing his recent conviction in a number of cases that have kept him and many of his party comrades incarcerated for several months.

"An alliance with the PML-N, PPP, and MQM is not possible," he said, saying that he had instructed PTI Information Secretary Rauf Hasan to unite all the parties except for three.

In addition, Khan cautioned his political adversaries against the "audacity" of creating a government with "stolen votes".

It would also be this, according to Khan, who sent a letter via his family from prison on his official website, "Push the country's economy further downwards."

"PTI will never compromise with people's will, and I have made it very clear that my party will not associate with any political party, including the PPP, PMLN, or MQM, that has embezzled the people's mandate," said Khan.

The PPP would assist in building a stable government even if it is not a part of it, according to Bilawal's earlier statement that "we may not be component of the government but we will hold talks among political parties on the issue of votes as well as election of the Prime Minister."

According to Bilawal, "For this purpose, the PPP will be ready to promote the issue of key votes - the candidates for PM of Pakistan - and on an issue-by-issue premise to ensure that the government is formed as well as political stability is restored."

Asif Ali Zardari, the 68-year-old father of late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, served as president from 2008 to 2013, and Bilawal expressed his desire to see his father in office again.

"I'm not saying this because he's my father," he said. I say this because Asif Ali Zardari is the only person who can put out the fire that the nation is now experiencing.

"It takes two to tango," Bilawal responded to a query, saying that all political parties needed to consider the nation and put a stop to the politics of division. "They should not just think about themselves as The country's enemies that are trying to take advantage of this crisis."

A party has to take 133 of the 265 seats up for grabs in the 266-member National Assembly in order to establish the government.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) with 75 seats, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) with 54 seats, as well as Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) with 17 seats are the next most popular political parties in the country, according to the Election Commission of Pakistan. The majority of these independent candidates hail from the PTI.

One seat's outcome was withheld, while other parties received 17 seats.

A top official in Khan's party said that the party will utilize the platforms of the two right-wing religious groups to create government in the provinces of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab in addition to the Center.

"Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party made the choice to join Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) and Jamaati-e-Islami (JI) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and establish governments at the Center and Punjab," said Hasan, the PTI's information secretary. have made up my mind," she said at a news conference.

According to Hasan, PTI is stepping up its attempts to create governments in Punjab and the Center.

PTI can create government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa even without the backing of any other party, but it is thought that with both parties uniting, PTI would not be able to collect enough power to form the federal or provincial administration in Punjab.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday dismissed more than thirty petitions from independent candidates supported by Khan's party, alleging that senior PML-N figures, including former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, had won a "sham victory." This decision dealt a setback to the PTI.

While rejecting the petitions, the Lahore High Court advised the PTI-backed candidates who lost to take their complaints to the Pakistani Election Commission.