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.
Zardari’s behavior with Palin was embarrassing.
Zardari might have thought he was being charming to Sarah Palin but his comments were quite sexist and quite inappropriate.
So, now our new President is flirting in New York with Sarah Palin. I think Sarah Palin must have been quite angry at this male chuvinist behavior from Zardari even if she did not show it there she must have been mad. The video of the meeting is really sad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GHWa6jqALE
Zardari then called her “gorgeous” and said: “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.”
“You are so nice,” Palin said, smiling. “Thank you.”
A handler from Zardari’s entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras.
“If he’s insisting, I might hug,” Zardari said. Palin smiled politely.
What must she be thinking about Pakistan and Pakistani men after this!
Left Pakistan seventeen years ago to attend college in States. I have often wondered if my decision for never returing was right or wrong. Thanks to this latest turmoil, I no longer feel sad about my decision. I would rather die on a foreign soil. I cannot believe this monkey is incharge after all he has done to Pakistan and its poor masses. Pakistanis, how much more he has to con you guys before you wake up? Wake up, He is a petty criminal. What a mess! God bless Jinnah and our other founding fathers. They must be sobbing in their graves. We have ruined their country.
Shame on us..