Shahid Khaqan Abbasi elected PM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz's candidate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan with a clear majority vote.

 During the election in the National Assembly, he secured 221 votes, whereas Pakistan Peoples Party's Naveed Qamar obtained 47 votes, joint candidate of Awami Muslim League Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and PML-Q Sheikh Rashid 33 votes and Sahibzada Tariqullah of Jamaat Islami four votes.

 "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is declared elected as Prime Minister of the Islamic republic of Pakistan," Speaker Ayaz Sadiq announced after the counting.

 Khaqan Abbasi will take oath as the country's 28th Prime Minister later Tuesday night.

 Profile of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi:-

 Khaqn Abbasi, an electrical engineer with a master's degree from George Washington University, served as the minister of petroleum and natural resources in former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif's third term, which ended on July 28, 2017.

 He remained mostly unbeaten in his political career, having only lost to the PPP candidate Ghulam Murtaza Satti in 2002. Except this defeat, he won every election he contested from 1988 till 2013.

 He was first elected as Member of the National Assembly in 1988, after the death of his father, Khaqan Abbasi - the then minister of production. After his election in the 1990 general elections for the second time, he was made parliamentary secretary for defence.

 In the 1993 general elections, he was elected to parliament once more and held office as the chairman of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Defence.

 Abbasi was elected again, for the fourth time, in 1997, and served as Chairman of Pakistan International Airlines from 1997 to 1999 in Nawaz Sharif's second term.

 The interim premier briefly held the positions of Minister for Commerce and Ministry of Defence Production in Yousuf Raza Gilani's government in 2008.