National Assembly to elect Pakistan's new PM on March 3

The election of Pakistan's new Prime Minister will be held on Sunday.

According to the election schedule issued by the National Assembly secretariat, nomination papers for the office of the Prime Minister can be submitted by 1400urs on Saturday.

The nomination papers can be obtained from the legislation branch of the National Assembly.

Scrutiny of the nomination papers will be held by three afternoons on Sunday.

Earlier, the newly elected members of the National Assembly took oath of their office during the inaugural session of the 16th National Assembly at the Parliament House in Islamabad.

Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf administered the oath.

After oath taking, the Speaker felicitated the newly elected members on their successful election.

PML-N Quaid and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, ex-prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, former president Asif Ali Zardari, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Yusuf Raza Gillani, Abdul Aleem Khan, Barrister Gohar Khan, Ali Muhammad Khan, Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaiser, and Sher Afzal Marwat —were the leading political leaders who took the oath during the House proceedings.