{"id":43448,"date":"2022-04-11T21:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/pakistan-assembly-elects-shehbaz-sharif-as-new-prime-minister"},"modified":"2022-04-12T02:11:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:11:26","slug":"pakistan-assembly-elects-shehbaz-sharif-as-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43448","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan assembly elects Shehbaz Sharif as new prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes after Imran Khan lost no-confidence vote after weeks of political turmoil<\/p>\n<p>Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has been sworn in as the new prime minister of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif, 70, took office after a historic and turbulent week in Pakistani politics in which the former prime minister Imran Khan was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/pakistan-on-brink-of-crisis-as-imran-khan-blocks-no-confidence-vote\">toppled by a no-confidence vote<\/a>, which he had gone to great lengths to stop, and the opposition coalition took power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/pakistan-assembly-elects-shehbaz-sharif-as-new-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes after Imran Khan lost no-confidence vote after weeks of political turmoilShehbaz Sharif, the brother of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has been sworn in as the new prime minister of Pakistan.Sharif, 70, took office after a hist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,60,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43458,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448\/revisions\/43458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}