Sharif's election as PML-N chief comes at a time when Imran Khan has been demanding for his resignation.
Islamabad
: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is under pressure to quit following the Panama Papers leak, was on Tuesday unanimously re-elected as president of his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in an intra-party election re-elected 66-year-old Sharif unopposed as no one contested his leadership.
Senior party leader Raja Zafarul Haq, an old loyalist of Sharif, was elected PML-N chairman. He was also elected unopposed.
Senior party leaders Sartaj Aziz, Sir Anjam Khan, Yakoob Khan and Mir Changez Khan Marri were elected senior vice presidents.
A five-member election committee headed by Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal organised the election.
Sharif's election as PML-N chief comes at a time when Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, has been demanding for his resignation.
Khan has threatened to launch a massive protest on November 2 to dislodge Sharif by locking down the capital Islamabad.
After his re-election, Sharif criticised Khan for ignoring his supporters in north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where PTI is in power.
-"Today the people of KP are searching for their elected leader. They are searching for those who promised them a 'Naya Pakistan' but they are only found on containers,-" he said.
Khan had given the slogan of Naya Pakistan in his 2013 election speeches.
-"Had you focused on your province, people would be praising you, but the situation now is such that you need months of effort to organise a gathering and to get people to attend it,-" Sharif said.
According to the Panama Papers, three of Sharif's four children - Maryam, Hasan and Hussain were owners of offshore companies and -"were owners or had the right to authorise transactions for several companies.-"
Sharif and his family have dismissed the allegations of money laundering and denied any wrongdoing but the opposition is demanding an independent probe.
Soon after his re-election as PML(N) chief, Sharif said the agenda of his party was development of the country and his party will win 2018 election on the basis of performance.
-"Forget about Pakistan, the PTI will have washed their hands of KP by 2018,-" he said.
Sharif said the politics of protest would fail and no one would be allowed to shut the roads.
-"These people claim they will come onto the streets and 'jam' Islamabad. We are the people who will continue building roads. You (Imran Khan) will keep wandering in the streets,-" he said.
Sharif also said that his government had achieved major success by turning around economy and starting several project to end power shortages.
