Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, is most likely to be Pakistan's next PM after Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence
Imran Khan has been dismissed as Pakistan's prime minister after losing a no-confidence vote, paving the way for an unlikely opposition alliance that faces the same issues that bedevilled Khan.
His first task will be to form a cabinet that will also draw heavily from the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party , as well as find space for the smaller conservative Jamiatul Ulema-e-Islam-F group. Shehbaz Sharif is the brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, while PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is the son of former president Asif Ali Zardari and assassinated ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. He has claimed the US worked behind the scenes to bring him down, purportedly because of Washington's displeasure over his independent foreign policy choices, which often favour China and Russia.
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