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Shehbaz Sharif sworn in as Pakistan’s new prime minister

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Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as Pakistan’s new prime minister on Monday after being elected a day earlier in a raucous parliamentary session. Shehbaz is the younger brother of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the PTI, insists it did better in the poll but that electoral theft and other irregularities deprived it of a parliamentary majority.

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