(ANSA) - ISLAMABAD, APRIL 10 - The leader of the Muslim-Pakistani League (Pml-N) Shehbaz Sharif is destined to become the new strongman in the country after the fall of Prime Minister Imran Khan, dismissed on the night between Saturday and Sunday by the National Assembly of Pakistan , the first head of government in the country's history to be overthrown in a vote of no confidence.
Khan's departure paves the way for the formation of an unlikely parliamentary alliance that should, from Monday, appoint Shehbaz Sharif to lead the country that has 220 million inhabitants and possesses nuclear weapons.
Sharif's first task will be a coalition government with the Pakistani People's Party (PPP, left) and the small conservative Jamiatul Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party.
The PPP and the PML-N are the two dynastic parties that have dominated national political life for decades.
Their alliance of convenience, forged to oust Khan from power, is unlikely to survive the upcoming elections, which are expected to take place in October 2023. Shehbaz Sharif, 70, is the younger brother of Nawaz Sharif, who has served as prime minister three times. .
He has long ruled the province of Punjab, the most populous in the country.
The PPP is led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of former president Asif Ali Zardari and former premier Benazir Bhutto, murdered in 2007. (ANSA).
