Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of everyone else.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has extended heartfelt congratulations to Bart De Wever on assuming office as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium. In a post on social media platform X, he said that Pakistan values its longstanding ties with Belgium.

Bart De Wever took the oath early Monday, looking straight at King Philippe, the latest monarch of a royal house he so long had little but disdain for because it symbolized the old concept of Belgian unity.