{"id":62059,"date":"2024-02-21T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/21\/pakistan-election-2024-shehbaz-sharif-imran-khan-pml-ppp"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:51:23","slug":"pakistan-election-coalition-against-imran-khan-says-deal-reached-to-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62059","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan election: coalition against Imran Khan says deal reached to form government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shehbaz Sharif expected to become prime minister again after plans for coalition government announced between PML-N and PPP parties <\/p>\n<p>Imran Khan\u2019s political rivals have announced details of a coalition agreement, naming Shehbaz Sharif as their joint candidate for prime minister amid continuing concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/17\/senior-pakistan-official-admits-election-rigging-as-protests-grip-country\">legitimacy of the recent elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s rivals said at a news conference of party leaders late on Tuesday that they had secured the required majority of votes to form a coalition government. The parliament will elect Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as the new prime minister when the inaugural session of the National Assembly is convened later this month, the party leaders said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/21\/pakistan-election-2024-shehbaz-sharif-imran-khan-pml-ppp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehbaz Sharif expected to become prime minister again after plans for coalition government announced between PML-N and PPP parties Imran Khan\u2019s political rivals have announced details of a coalition agreement, naming Shehbaz Sharif as their joint cand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[359,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62059","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62059\/revisions\/62060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}