Asif Zardari 12th president of Pakistan
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
“Asif Ali Zardari secured 281 votes out of the 426 valid votes polled in the parliament,” chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq said.
Voting was held Saturday in Pakistan's two chambers of parliament and four provincial assemblies.
Zardari secured a thumping majority in three of the four provincial assemblies forming the presidential electoral college, officials said.
In Sindh, his home province, Zardari secured 62 of the 65 electoral votes while his two main rivals, Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui and Mushahid Hussain, failed to get a single vote, they said.
Siddiqui had been fielded by former premier Nawaz Sharif and Hussain is a close aide of Pervez Musharraf, whose resignation on August 18 in the face of impeachment threats triggered the election.
In North West Frontier Province Zardari emerged a clear winner with 56 votes against five secured by Siddiqui and one by Hussain.
And in Baluchistan Zardari bagged 59 votes while Siddiqui and Hussain got two each.
After holding talks with USA and India, President Asif Ali Zardari announced that War Against Terrorism is our war ... personally cant understand how can its our war where Pakistani is killing Pakistani... this is not a good indication... the minute Zardari was discussing the border crossing issue with President Bush, same time US defence minister was telling USA congress that the biggest danger to USA is from Northern border areas of Pakistan
Very nice Nazi... ru from Pakistan...I am from Paki and have the same feeling...nice to hear ur comments....
Democracy is to Muslims as a square hole is to a round peg....
They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to see it... --George Carlin
” that is most important news in the democratic history of Pakistan. Unlike referendums, self declared president, takeovers, coup etc. this presidential election has a clear difference to elect 12th president of Pakistan. It is important; that who becomes that president, what would be his Agenda and what are his belongings however it is more important that what process was adopted to make him elected president. Certainly the process adopted was according to the constitution and this turns the steering of democracy towards right direction.
Mr. 10% will lead our country...God knows to where..?? Allah Kareem
Never Ask for a SMILE..just GIVE it..
U people might heard of corruption charges against Asif Ali Zardari... Now, He is the President........ What is gonna happen next??
Pakistan Zindabad.... Long live Pakistan
thts it.may Allah bless pakistan.
now asif zardari is goin to swallow pakistan.
Zardari as President, with his own man as PM..
Do you seriously believe that he will only stay five years??
He will stay long enough to groom his son to take over.. However long it takes..
11 years of zia & 9 golden years of Musharraf was the period ur country was known in international level i think now pak will be worse than bangladesh im seeing end of pak
If we could survive 11 years of zia and 8-9 years of musharraf , im sure 5 years of zardari would do no harm.
Well said BritExpat these people deserve him only....
now the economy will be worse then before and i can see the end of pakistan.....
RIP Pakistan
Truly said brit expat... No comments
They say a people deserve the leader they get..
So good luck..