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.
draconian smile!
what the hell were we doing between 1988 and 1999 that we are now giving yet another chance for “democracy” and to the same thieves, liars, slackers and morons that ruled during that decade?
Some eye opener images from Sept.6, 2008
http://asifalizardari.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/asi f-ali-zardari-president-of-pakistan/#more-31
Very Well said, Bunty!
(I wish for our folks to stop spewing predictions. When it comes to politics we have no shortage of self proclaimed prophets of doom).
>>We have to start at the very bottom of the pile where its smelly, ugly and utterly unbearable, but let the infant crawl only to learn at his own pace
Give democracy a chance folks, with a few election cycles the garbage of today will really get what it deserves. Give these so called elected custodians a few months before they will start swallowing nuts and bolts and peeing blood!<<
Hey Guys, Lighten Up!
The BAD NEWS is that Zardari is President of Pakistan
The GOOD NEWS is that hopefully this is the worst democracy can deliver and now anything and everything that goes wrong….PPP will be blamed! Lets start with the brazen recent attack of ISAF on innocent civilians at Angoor Adda!
We have to start at the very bottom of the pile where its smelly, ugly and utterly unbearable, but let the infant crawl only to learn at his own pace
Give democracy a chance folks, with a few election cycles the garbage of today will really get what it deserves. Give these so called elected custodians a few months before they will start swallowing nuts and bolts and peeing blood!