{"id":61883,"date":"2024-02-14T04:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/13\/pakistan-coalition-agrees-to-form-government-and-shut-out-imran-khans-party"},"modified":"2024-02-14T04:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:53:23","slug":"pakistan-coalition-agrees-to-form-government-and-shut-out-imran-khans-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61883","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: coalition agrees to form government and shut out Imran Khan\u2019s party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rival parties will make Shehbaz Sharif prime minister, despite Khan\u2019s party getting most votes at election <\/p>\n<p>A coalition including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PLM-N) and the Pakistan People\u2019s party (PPP) have agreed to form the next government of Pakistan, ensuring that the party of former prime minister Imran Khan will not take power despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/10\/imran-khan-claims-victory-in-pakistan-poll-but-military-might-have-final-say\">getting the most votes in the election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday night, it was confirmed that the rival parties had agreed, with two smaller coalition partners, to form a joint government \u201cto take Pakistan out of difficulty\u201d and that PLM-N\u2019s president, Shehbaz Sharif, would be their sole nominee for prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/13\/pakistan-coalition-agrees-to-form-government-and-shut-out-imran-khans-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rival parties will make Shehbaz Sharif prime minister, despite Khan\u2019s party getting most votes at election A coalition including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PLM-N) and the Pakistan People\u2019s party (PPP) have agreed to form the next government of P&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4132,"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":[359,813,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-nawaz-sharif","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61883","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\/4132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61910,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61883\/revisions\/61910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}