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.
dekha musharraf kay janay ki dair thi, jannat kay farishtay presidency pay utar aaye.
an extremely dark day in Pakistani history. I am considering giving up my Pakistani nationality.
Today Mr Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as the new President of Pakistan – which will go down in history as the DARKEST DAY of Pakistan.
We are now officially a CORRUPT NATION, as the most corrupt person has been officially declared the President of Pakistan!!!
I think CIA plan is working for Pakistan. CIA threw Musharaf out as he resisted control of ISI by CIA.
It is CIA who finance media outlets like GEO against Musharaf. Zardari will be 10x loyal to USA as Musharaf was.
Next step? Total control of ISI and full freedom of operation in Waziristan. Then may be control of nukes.
meengla > I’m not a supporter of a dictatorship but your comment is inaccurate. Dictatorship has been working well in many areas since the dawn of mankind. Society works in phases. First there is anarchy, then someone takes control with dictatorship, then people get educated and replace it with democracy.
England, China, Jordon, Egypt, Persia, India etc etc were all successful dictatorships at one time or another.
But seriously though, dictatorship is not the problem. The problem is TYRANTS taking up power. If a benevolent and fair dictator is in power then the people are better off. If a tyrant becomes a dictator then things are BAD.
Same in democracy. A democratically elected tyrant can destroy the democracy. Did the people vote for him? No.