Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has has been elected Prime Minister by Pakistan's National Assembly, becoming the interim leader of the country after Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court over the Panama Papers scandal. <br/><br/>Abbasi got elected after getting 221 votes in the House of 342. Naveed Qamar of Pakistan Peoples Party got 47 votes, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got 33 while Jamaat-e-Islami's Sahibzada Tariqullah managed just four votes. <br/><br/>After announcing the results amid sloganeering, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq asked Abbasi to take the seat of the Prime Minister and address the House.<br/><br/>Abbasi will be sworn-in later at a special ceremony at the President's House, where President Mamnoon Hussain will administer the oath to him.<br/><br/>The Supreme Court on Friday disqualified 67-year-old Prime Minister Sharif for dishonesty and ruled that corruption cases be filed against him and his children over the Panama Papers scandal, forcing him to resign.<br/><br/>The National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, was summoned by President Hussain to elect the new leader.<br/><br/>Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz nominated Abbasi as interim Prime Minister until Sharif's brother Shehbaz is elected as a National Assembly member. <br/><br/>The PML-N party holds 188 seats in the 342-member Parliament.