ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi received the guard of honour by the armed forces at the Prime Minister House on Thursday.

The newly elected prime minister officially took charge as the chief executive of the country after warmly received by the senior staff of PM House when he arrived here today.

Abbasi took oath on Tuesday as the 28th prime minister of Pakistan, being elected by majority of 221 votes in the National Assembly following disqualification of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath in a ceremony held at the presidency later in the evening.

The National Assembly speaker, governors of four provinces and Gilgit Baltistan (G-B), president and prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, chief ministers of Balochistan and G-B, services chiefs, parliamentarians, senior politicians, diplomats and high level civil officials attended the ceremony. The president, later, hosted a reception in honour of the newly elected prime minister.