Friday, 22 June 2012

Raja elected Pakistan's new prime minister

ISLAMABAD: PPP candidate Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has been elected the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, SAMAA reported on Friday.

Ashraf has bagged 211 votes against PML-N’s Mehtab Abbasi who managed to get 89 votes.

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who was also the candidate for the top slot, withdrew from the race a few minutes before the voting began.

Rehman said he was withdrawing over the failure of the government and opposition parties to field a consensus candidate under the

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