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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correpsondent

Pakistan: coalition agrees to form government and shut out Imran Khan’s party

Shehbaz Sharif
Shehbaz Sharif, the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), will be the sole nominee for prime minister. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

A coalition including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s 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 getting the most votes in the election.

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 “to take Pakistan out of difficulty” and that PML-N’s president, Shehbaz Sharif, would be their sole nominee for prime minister.

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