Former Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to be candidate for next premier -party spokeswoman

Pakistan's former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif will be the candidate to head the country's next coalition government, a spokeswoman for Sharif's party said on Tuesday in a social media post.

Last week's national election returned a hung parliament in which no party commands a majority. However, the parties of Sharif and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari together have enough seats to form a new coalition government.