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Pakistan's opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif (C) speaks, flanked by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (L), during a press conference with other parties' leaders in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 7, 2022. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s parliament elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister Monday, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.
Sharif took the oath of office inside the stately, white marble palace known as the Presidency in a brief ceremony.
