8 years ago
New Delhi:
Imran Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former cricket star, has been sworn in as Prime Minister today at the oath ceremony in Islamabad, having won the general elections last month. After his party fell short of outright majority, it scraped through a simple majority in the Pakistan parliament's confidence vote on Thursday securing four votes more than the 172 needed for a majority. Navjot Singh Sidhu, one of the three Indian cricketers invited by Mr Khan to his swearing-in ceremony, had reached Lahore yesterday. A minister in Congress' Punjab government, Mr Sidhu said that he had gone to Lahore "not as a politician but as a friend."
