In his first speech after his inauguration, opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, who was appointed as the country's new Prime Minister, in succession to Imran Khan, from whom parliament voted no confidence, said that "Almighty God has saved the country because of the frenzied efforts of allied opposition leaders."

Sharif had received 174 of the 342 votes in Parliament and would serve as Prime Minister until the next general election, which is expected in 2023.

Shahbaz Sharif, 70, has previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab Province and as the youngest brother of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, three times.

The new Prime Minister noted that this was the first time in Pakistan's history that the Prime Minister had been removed through a motion of no confidence.

In its first decision, Shahbaz Sharif raised the minimum wage for government employees to Rs.2500, effective 1 April.

According to analysts, Shahbaz Sharif's government will face major challenges, including a problem of debt accumulation, accelerated inflation and weakening of the "rupee" national currency, leading to stagnant growth over the past three years, but the rupee has begun an upward spiral against the dollar, raising about 1% and reaching an exchange rate of Rs. 182.93 against the dollar.

One of the major security problems that has recently escalated is the high pace of operations by the "Pakistan Taliban," a self-contained movement that shares its roots with the fundamentalist movement that took power in Afghanistan last year, and threatened to launch a massive attack on Government forces during Ramadan, previously accused of being responsible for a series of bloody attacks.

One of the challenges facing the Sharif government is foreign relations, especially the United States, and the reconciliation of differences with China, because China has a joint economic project, the joint economic corridor under the Belt and Road Initiative. This project faced sanctions during the era of Imran Khan.

The Shahbaz Sharif government will work to repair this rift in the coming days, as well as to remove the outstanding differences with Beijing. "

It is noted that "the new Government is made up of the coalition of opposition parties, which have previously criticized the army and its interference in political life, straining relations especially with the Islamic League party led by Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and will work to improve relations with the army, so that they do not immediately clash with the military."