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.
In the first hundred days in power Premer Yusuf Raza Gilani
made many lofty promises but kept low on delivery.
Will the first 100 days of President Zardari be any different? Can one expect any concrete results rather than cosmetic gestures?
Zardari can list out a 5-point agenda for his first hundred days to indicate that he will have a focussed apporach to offer relief to the toiling masses.
Zardari is teh worst choice we cold have made amongst teh politicians. But that mans he is still better than Musharraf or some other military general.
Adil, please do put on here if possible the video from various news channels showing the supposedly ”law-makers” of NWFP (including the Chief Minister who is Hoti’s son) & Baluchistan Provincial assemblies out rightly showing their ballot slips to the PPP members thereby confirming their ”loyalty” to have voted for Zardari. So much for the sanctity of the vote and laws governing the secrecy of the voting process. Simply disgusting, disturbing and befitting the penny personalities of these so called elected lawmakers of these two assemblies!
Where is the much touted independent election commission and/ or law-makers now?
Lets hope that Pakistan is able to face all the challanges now.
Many politicians who were once against hime proposed his name and seconded it.
Interesting to see what made them changes their mind..
i dont know y
our nation forget abt the past
and elect the old party again with a gud future hope
i think its time our nation realize
jo party aik dafa govt main akar kuch nahi kar sakty woh das dafa bhi aye to kuch nahi kar sakey gi
apney bank balances bananey k ilawa
GOD bless pakistan
i simply have no hope from our new president
but he played well
from jail to president house