Posted by admin on September 6th, 2008
Following is the official profile of President-elect Asif Ali Zardari who won the presidential election with an overwhelming majority on Saturday from the parliament and the four provincial assemblies.
Profile of Asif Ali Zardari:
PPP Co-Chairman Senator Asif Ali Zardari was born on July 26, 1955 in a prominent Baloch family from Sindh. He is the son of veteran politician Mr. Hakim Ali Zardari.
On his maternal side he is the great-grandson of Khan Bahadur Hassan Ali Effendi, the founder of the first educational institution for Muslims in Sindh. The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was among the prominent students to graduate from the Sindh Madrasa.
Mr Zardari received his primary education at Karachi Grammar School and secondary education at Cadet College Petaro.
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Posted by admin on September 6th, 2008
Asif Ali Zardari Saturday routed his opponents from PML-N and PML-Q, in the presidential election with a pledge to strengthen democracy, bring political harmony and wipe out terrorism from the country, as its next President. According to the unofficial result out of 702 Asif Ali Zardari secured 479 votes, of which he got 281 from Parliament, 22 from Punjab, 64 from Sindh, 59 from Balochistan and 56 from NWFP.
Justice retired Saeeduzaman Siddique got 153 and Mushahid Hussain got 43 votes.
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Posted by Pakistan News on September 6th, 2008
Sept. 6 - A car bomb in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least six as Pakistani lawmakers were casting votes for a new president.
Posted by Owais Mughal on September 6th, 2008
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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 70. 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.
Posted by Arif Rafiq on September 6th, 2008
As Pakistan’s legislative assemblies elect the next president — likely to be Asif Zardari — moderate tremors struck northern Pakistan, including the capital, Islamabad, for the second consecutive day.
Earlier in the week, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal described Zardari as “a Category 5 hurricane.”
The consensus apparently shared by God, the Journal, and a host of other papers is that Zardari is a natural disaster.
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