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.
This is what I think about Pakistan. I do not know who uttered this Sheir but it reads as follows:
Har shaakh pay uloo baitha hai
Anjaam e gulistan kia ho ga.
Ahmed Mahmood
what is the professional diaspora going to do? be like naseem ashraf?
don’t you have a role to play?
are we going to leave Pakistan and Pakistanis to their fate ?
I hope we can now stop talking just about this and move on to more important things. With the country facing so many problems lets start solving them please.
any one, please tell what should we do. if we are all sick of this system and want a change will that happen just by writing here. any ideas? can’t we have a professional middle class led political party in Pakistan? which is country based not city based.
Here is my theory of the political landscape at the moment. Zardari and Nawaz Shareef use the independent judiciary movement to throw Musharraf out. Zardari already has plans not to bring it back, because of all his cases. Nawaz Shareef also knows about this that is why he take it as a primary agenda. But wait, this plan is made together between them. They show cooperation between themselves and people of Pakistan elect both of them, so that they can form a collation.
After PPP is elected, they use this agenda to distance themselves. Nawaz now sits in the opposition and waits for his time. Now once people will get tired and frustated with PPP, they will vote for Nawaz, and he will come back. Meanwhile Zardari would have looted the nation for these years, and will hand over the baton to Nawaz, who will continue looting, and this process will go on, until another martial law.
1990s anyone?