Sharif back as PML-N boss

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Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif was today re-elected as the president of the ruling PML-N and the ousted Pakistan prime minister immediately demanded that those who disqualified him should respect the people's mandate and democracy.

Sharif, 67, had to step down as the chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after he was disqualified as the PM by the Supreme Court on July 28 in the Panama Papers scandal.

The PML-N yesterday took full advantage of its position as the ruling party as President Mamnoon Hussain signed the controversial Election Act 2017 into law hours after it was bulldozed through the National Assembly amid pandemonium on the opposition benches, the Dawn reported.