Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been elected unopposed as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president. The three-time former PM was re-elected unopposed six years after losing the post following a Supreme Court ruling in the Panama Papers case. The 74-year-old veteran politician, who returned to Pakistan in October last year after a four-year self-imposed exile in the UK, was elected at the General Council meeting of the PML-N in Lahore, his party said in a post on X.
Earlier, his party while sharing a video of preparations for the General Council meeting, had said: “Lion is returning to take his rightful place at the top.” The PML-N had earlier announced convening the general council meeting on May 11 but it was postponed to coincide with the celebration of 26 years of Pakistan becoming a nuclear power, Dawn newspaper reported. Sharif was the prime minister when Pakistan conducted six nuclear tests on May 28, 1998.
PML-N Punjab president Rana Sanaullah had hinted that the elder Sharif would be elected without a contest. When asked why the party didn't adopt a democratic process to vote for a new president, Sanaullah said the party was a “servant of power corridors and it was Nawaz Sharif who made it a party of the public”. He added that after Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, it was Nawaz Sharif who “made the party vibrant”.
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