Pakistan elects Asif Ali Zardarias President for second term

Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari was elected as Pakistan’s 14 president on Saturday, days after Shehbaz Sharif was elected because the Prime Minister of the financially -hit nation.

This goes to be Zardari’s second time period because the President.

Zardari acquired majority votes of the electoral faculty, comprising the parliament and provincial assemblies, paving method for him to imagine the workplace of President of Pakistan, reported ARY News.

According to reviews, the PPP co-Chairman acquired 411 votes whereas the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) backed candidate Mehmood Khan Achakzai — the house of PTI independents — bagged solely 181 seats.

Asif Ali Zardari was backed by PPP and the PML-N.

An electoral faculty comprising members of the Senate, National Assembly and the 4 provincial assemblies elected the President.

Who is Asif Ali Zardari?

Asif Ali Zardari is the husband of slain Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

She was assassinated in 2007.

He will change Dr Arif Alvi whose five-year time period ended final yr.

Alvi continued because the new electoral faculty was not shaped.

Zardari had earlier served because the nation’s President from 2008 to 2013.

Shehbaz Sharif congratulates Zardari

Congratulating Zadari, Sharif was quoted as saying by Geo News: “Zardari’s election as president is the continuity of democratic values”

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari needs new President

Bilawal wished his father Asia Ali Zardari and wrote on X: “Congratulations President elect Zardari @AAliZardari.”