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.
Wel finally the curtain is raised over all ambiguties - this is democracy - he has won with a majority no matter what people opine about him.
So let the democracy flourish in the country
You don’t mess with Zardari (2008).
Cowasjie’s “Bully-boys, they say, are cowards” in today’s Dawn.
http://tinyurl.com/6fzs5m
DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE.
I may not like him but I know that he is elected. Unlike Musharraf he came in not on the barrel of a gun but through an electoral process. A good day for Pakistan.
@ShahidnUSA, height of Optimism :P
Lets hope things will cool down and Pakistanis can get on with life and thsi soap opera will now end. Please.
Let me be the optimistic and get something positive out of these
negative sentiments.
If the iron cuts the iron
Then an allegedly criminal would be the best to deal with the “criminals”.
You cannot fool Mr Zardari.
He is quite capable of fooling others.
So I am happy.
It is a matter of time good leaders will replace Mr. 10 percent and amir -e- momineen.
Janab Hai Sahib;
The ground reality is that the progeny of the
Bhuttos , Sharifs and similar tribes are already in line in the assemlies and parliment for their share of the carrion.
You think anything will be leftover after they are done?