New Delhi: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan sworn-in as the 22nd prime minister of the country at the President House in Islamabad today.
Navjot Singh Sidhu meets Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at #ImranKhan‘s oath-taking ceremony in Islamabad.
#WATCH: Navjot Singh Sidhu meets Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at #ImranKhan‘s oath-taking ceremony in Islamabad. pic.twitter.com/GU0wsSM56s
— ANI (@ANI) August 18, 2018
Highlights:
# 10:49 am: Imran Khan takes oath as the Prime Minister of Pakistan
— ANI (@ANI) August 18, 2018
# Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Maneka at Khan’s oath-taking ceremony in Islamabad
#Pakistan pic.twitter.com/XleLVg9Sw7
— ANI (@ANI) August 18, 2018
# 10:16 am: Navjot Singh Sidhu and Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony in Islamabad
— ANI (@ANI) August 18, 2018
“The PTI chairman has directed to stage the oath-taking event with austerity. He will take his oath in a simple ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr (President House). It has been decided that no foreign personalities will be invited to the ceremony – it will be a completely national event,” Dawn quoted PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry as saying.
Following his party’s victory in the 25 July Pakistan elections, Khan has pledged to take austerity measures to save taxpayers’ money. He had announced that he would not move into the Prime Minister’s House and a final decision on the fate of the building would be decided by the party.
While the 65-year-old cricketer-turned-politician bagged 176 seats, Sharif, the PML-N president and the brother of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, managed to secure just 96 seats, The Dawn reported.
Other cricketers such as Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, who was also invited by Khan, earlier confirmed that they would not be participating in the event. While Dev cited ‘personal reasons’, Gavaskar also declined the invitation owing to his commentary commitments for the ongoing Test series between India and England, the report said.
On Friday, Khan was elected as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, defeating his rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Shehbaz Sharif.
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