Shehbaz Sharif is Pakistan’s new prime minister
He faces a daunting to-do list, starting with mending a broken economy
IT WAS THE old Pakistan that Imran Khan, now the country’s ex-prime minister, railed against. He promised to banish the self-serving political establishment, usher in an era of clean politics and create a new Islamic welfare state. So it was with visible glee that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, whose mother, father and grandfather have all served as prime minister, president or both, declared to lawmakers after Mr Khan’s downfall, “Welcome back to purana [old] Pakistan.”
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A new Sharif in town”
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