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.
A sad and dark day in our History
Today is the darkest and saddest day in the history of Pakistan. Today September 6, 2008, the Pakistan defense day when our nation was attacked by India and thousands sacrificed their lives defending the country. Alas On this sacred day Zardari becomes the president of Pakistan. Zardari who does not need any introduction is one of the most corrupt and crook politician of our time, the man who is also accused of murdering Murtaza Bhotto. Is this day is as sad and dark as, when military dictators like Ayub Khan, Zia ul Haq, Pervez Mushraf illegally and unconstitutionally stole the power from the democratically elected governments and impose marshal law i.e. law of jungle on the people of Pakistan. Yes it is and also it is as sad as when so call democratically elected corrupt and incompetent politicians like Nawaz Sharif and Banazeer Bhotto came in to power. We all remember the sad day when Prime Minister Nawas Sharif sends his goons to attack the Supreme Court and destroy the respect and supremacy of the Judiciary. We also remember when Prime Minister Banazeer Bhotto appointed her husband Zardari who got the title of Mr. Ten percent, as minister of investment. Now this flawed character Asif Zardari being all in all of a nation of 170 millions people is as sad, dark and painful day in Pakistan’s history as East Pakistan become Bagladash because of lack of real democracy and ill policies of the military dictators. There is a God after all and I hope and pray that this is the beginning of the end of the miseries of the People of Pakistan.
For the Interest of Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari should disclose all of his assets?
Please wait and see before we do negative criticism on President and this is coming from 100% supporter of Musharraf. As Musharraf said Pakistan First so for Pakistan give him a chance to prove himself.
Does it make much difference who is the
Dear Kamran,
You have traced the political happenings for the coming years in Pakistan. I do agree with this analysis but I will add another possibility as well. For the time being Sharif will be the leader of the opposition party but he may not get a chance to loot.
The other scenario may be the following:
The C.J. Iftikhar Cahudry has not been reinstalled and will not be in any future. The NRO will not be revoked. Mr. Zardari will remain the President of Pakistan for five years. The retired Chief Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, another obedient judge of Sharif Brothers has lost his chances to the presidency. In this case the PPP government may very easily open the old corruption cases against the two brothers. Both of them will be running to Saudi Arabia or to some other safe heaven to escape a Pakistani Prison.
Meanwhile Zardari will prepare the ground for his kith and kin. He has already started showing his daughters as left and right arms. But he is simply using them as symbols of Bhutto Family (Benazir). His real aim is to install his son (Zardari) on the throne. Mr. Z. A. Butto tried and failed. Now Mr. A. A. Zardari is trying and I think he will he succeed. Long live Pakistan.
AHsn
@Azhar
The problem is that we can’t do a lot. The infrastructure that we have is based on a very corrupt foundation, due to which our thinking has also been corrupted. It may sound very negative, but we actually need a dictator (with a very strong moral/ethic code) to spank us and make us a better human being.