Former cricket star Imran Khan has been elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in a vote at the country's National Assembly.
His PTI party won the most seats in July's elections ‑ setting up Khan to become PM with the help of small parties, more than two decades after he first entered politics.
He will be sworn in today.
65-year-old Khan, will inherit a country with a mounting economic crisis and he has vowed to create a "new Pakistan".
The charismatic sports star, who captained Pakistan to a World Cup victory in 1992, has long shed his celebrity playboy image and now styles himself as a pious, populist, anti‑poverty reformer.
[Source:BBC News]
