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Islamabad: Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday took oath as Pakistan’s 14th President, a day after the veteran politician was overwhelmingly elected as the subsequent head of state. Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath to the 68-year-old Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the Presidential Palace. Zardari will exchange Dr Arif Alvi, who stayed in workplace for 5 extra months regardless of finishing his five-year time period in September 2023.
The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, all three service chiefs, senior officers and diplomats.
Zardari, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman, the joint candidate of the ruling alliance, was elected because the nation’s president for the second time on Saturday after he defeated PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai by an enormous margin.
He secured 411 electoral votes in Parliament and all 4 provincial assemblies with the backing of allied events — primarily Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P).
His rival, Achakzai bagged 181 votes as he was solely capable of safe the vast majority of votes within the PTI-backed SIC-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. This is the second time Zardari has received the presidency. He earlier served because the eleventh president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013 and has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018.
Who is Asif Ali Zardari
Born in 1955, Zardari was introduced up and educated in Karachi. He was married to Pakistan’s former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s daughter, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in December 2007.
Zardari’s best achievement throughout his first time period was seen because the constructing of a uncommon political consensus on adopting a brand new authorized and political framework to decentralise energy and curb the presidential powers wielded by former navy leaders. He took management of the PPP Party in keeping with the needs expressed in his slain spouse’s will.
From the early Nineteen Nineties to 2004, he spent 11 years in jail on graft expenses, which had been by no means confirmed in any court docket and that he and his get together known as military-backed political victimisation, a cost the military denies.
(With inputs from company)
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