Asif Ali Zardari becomes the President of Pakistan today after winning the presidential election. He secured 479 votes out of 702. His opponents, Retired Chief Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui received 153 elctoral votes and Senator Mushahid Hussein received 43. Asif’s victory in three provinces is overwhelming, especially in Sindh where his opposing candidates couldn’t get a single vote. Only in Punjab Assembly Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqi is able to get more votes than Asif.
The vote by the two houses of parliament and four provincial assemblies forms the 1,170-member, but 702-vote, electoral college. According to a Dawn update:
‘Asif Ali Zardari secured 281 votes out of the 426 valid votes polled in the parliament,’ chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq said. He has secured 458 out of 702 electoral college votes, according to partial Election Commission results.
Asif Zardari is the 13th President of Pakistan. The ones who have been President before him include: Iskandar Mirza, Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Zia-ul-Haq, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Waseem Sajjad, Farooq Laghari, Waseem Sajjad, Rafiq Tarar and Pervaiz Musharraf. Waseem Sajjad has twice been the President of Pakistan.
I simply don’t understand people who make blank statements like I love Pakistan.
We all know you do and are concerned about Pakistan. Thats why we are on this blog. We all love Pakistan!!! and please spare us your statements and make intelligent coments.
But unfortunately people that are the most concerned about Pakistan have left the country and the uneducated Masses have elected Mr Zardari Bhutto.
Someone tell me why is Zardari Qualified to be a president????
Who is he besides being a widower of a “unqualified hyped daughter” of a good ex-prime Minister ??and why isn’t my Dhohbi Sheeda more qualified than Zardari to be a president??
I can only say “God Bless Pakistan”
Why doesnt he bring back the judges now. All past year ppp and pml have blasted our ears that “judges bahal karo jadges bahal karo”.
What a blundar. Pakistan is gone now with this dude in the seat. Bombs are still exploding and yesterday another bomb exploded. Nothing will change but actually it will get more worse and worse. America is bomb pakistan border now.
Some people here are saying give him a chance. Jub sari zindgi yeh insan theek nahin howa so what makes you guys think he will suddenly over night become morally good person just for the sake of pakistan. He was a corrupt guy from the begining.
I am extreamly sad sad sad and this situation!
http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/08/top1.htm
Jaisai Nation ………….
Waisa Hukmran……..
Zardari is a out put of our Nations………
Why we blame Zardari that Wo Kaisa ha………
We blame ourself Ham Kaisa hain.?????????????
Enjoy the Zardari Presidency…….Best of Luck my Nation…I Lv u……..
@ Meengla….
in your last post you made no attempt to even explain the 60 Million USD that is being released to him…but instead came up with the whopper that it maybe as little as a paltry 2.8 Million USD….
Just how in the world did you come up with that figure?… me thinks that just because you wish something were so…doesnt make it so….you believe that this man is the messiah…? well absolultely nothing in his oast sugguests that…absolutely nothing…and you cant make anything up….you would make a lot of efforts to find a man of better character to be the family driver simply because you will be entrusting your car to him….and yet you hold a president of our sorry country to such low standards….
“Best of Luck Pakistan”!!!
Zardari The President of Pakistan…!
Allah May have mercy of this nation of poors…
1) I support Zardari’s right to be the president of Pakistan because he is reflected by the elected respresentatives from all the 4 provinces of Pakistan. To deny him legitimacy would only expose the dictatorial mindset of the so-called educated elites of Pakistan.
2) So Zardari is afraid of the NRO because that might ‘nab’ him now?! Pretty simplistic and un-analytic ‘argument’. Didn’t the State of Pakistan spend millions (of $$–not Rupees) between 1996-2004 to convict him? What could the restoration of IMC do now (under a friendly regime) which could not be done before (under VERY hostile regimes)?
3) Again, the principle is ‘innocent until proven guilty’. You have a good case against Zardari? Then why couldn’t the millions helped your case then.
4) At the risk of a seeming contradiction, I will say this now: I, like Dawn.com’s Irfan Hussain (Mazdak) think that Zardari took ‘kickbacks’ in financial deals. Yes, corruption. But nothing on the scale reported and propagated. Even the $60 million -may- be actually $2.8 million.
5) The crimes of generals who dismembered the country, gave it the Kalashnikov and Heroin Culture and, now, life-threatening terrorism are far greater than the millions which may have been stolen by Zardari. Why NOT someone hold them accountable too?
6) And what about those Muslim Leaguis, who were mediocre businessmen in 1977, who are empires in their own rights? ANY discussion of that ever possible?
7) Both #5, #6 lead to: Selective ‘justice’ is injustice. Let there be across the board accountability of all. Then we will have a deal. Until then, however you may shout, I am not going to budge an inch.
8) Finally, I am practical enough to know that it is only the political class of Pakistan, however undeveloped, corrupt, or feudal, which is going to have the right to rule Pakistan. Inherently, the political class will correct itself. The generals are not accountable and they cannot, beyond a few years of damage control, stabilize Paksitan. But, as I see it, we have an Amir ul Mominoon representative of Punjab or the Don of Karachi or the Pakhtoonkwa nationalists. I won’t even speak of the mullahs (including the untained Maulana Imran Khan). Compared to them, the Pakistan Peoples Party gives the best hope currently of uniting Pakistanis from all parts of Pakistan.