Raindance

Thanks !
lol @ jahannum ,, I thought this was some Girl's name like anjum or jahan numa


Later Praa,,

Shamraz Khan

Asif Ali Zardari elected new President of Pakistan

Asif Ali Zardari elected new President of Pakistan
Updated at: 1550 PST, Saturday, September 06, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as new president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on Saturday. Asif Ali Zardari is Pakistan's 11th since 1956, when the country became a republic, excluding acting presidents.

Amidst vociferous slogans of “Jeye Bhutto” and “Zinda hae Bibi zinda hae” the Chief Election Commissioner announced the unofficial result according to which Asif Ali Zardari secured 281 votes, against 111 of Justice (Retired) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui and 34 of Mushahid Hussain Sayed, out of 436 total votes, of which ten were invalid.

Zardari also swept the polls in the provincial assemblies of NWFP, Sindh and Balochistan.

Zardari bagged 100 percent votes from his native Province’s Sindh Assembly; he bagged 162 votes out of 163 cast in the house of 166 with one vote declared invalid. The result was announced by Presiding Officer, Chief Justice Sindh High Court, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali immediately after the counting was over. In the house of 166, not a single vote was cast in favor of any of the other two presidential candidates Mushahid Hussain Sayed and Justice ® Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui.

Asif Zardari emerged victorious in the Balochistan Assembly by securing 59 out of the 63 votes polled for the presidential election. The other candidates for the post, Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui of PML-N and Mushahid Hussain Sayed of PML-Q got 2 votes each.

The result was announced by the Presiding Officer, Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court Justice Amanullah Yasinzai after counting of votes. Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind and Tariq Hussain Masoori abstained.

In the NWFP Assembly, Asif Zardari secured record 107 votes out of a total of 124 votes polled. Justice ® Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui of PML-N grabbed 10 votes while Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed of PML-Q obtained only three votes. While four votes were declared invalid as it were wrongly marked. Presiding Officer Tariq Pervez, Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court declared the unofficial results after counting of the votes.

Earlier, The voting process was held through a secret ballot by the two chambers of the national parliament, the National Assembly and Senate and the four provincial assemblies.

Chief Election Commissioner, Justice ® Qazi Muhammad Farooq conducted the proceedings as Returning Officer for election to the Office of the President. At the Parliament House, members from both the Houses, Senate and National Assembly, cast their votes to elect the President, being the Electoral College for Presidential election.

The contest was between Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Justice ® Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Mushahid Hussain Sayed of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q).

Security has been beefed up across Pakistan and additional contingents of security forces were deployed in major cities.

Elegance

Ufff I wish I could celebrate 'Black Day' today but can't because it's our defence Day too.

Raindance

Pakistan Zinda Baad Baqi sub es kay Baad !Daikh lain gay es salay ko bhi, yeh hai kiya cheez.

What you say all ?

Shamraz Khan

Congrats to the nation for electing honest, and *cough cough* straight forward man as president. Here onward we can go no where but up...

white billa

Abb kia ho gha pakistan kah

Elegance

Pakistan se zinda bhaag

Raindance

Imo

In view of the present state of affaires, I hope and speculate some thing good will happen
from this outcome.
Prseident Zardari (President of Pakistan has limited powers to constitute changes or abrupt aieen as was possible in the past) later will be on parliament agenda asap.

On the contrary I'm worried about PM Yousuf Raza Gilani who seems weak and less experienced to run portfolios on International affaires surrounding Pakistan.

Zero_one

Zero_one

ehsan

Zardari got elected by over 2/3rd majority.

GoldenAsif

Asif Ali Zardari is Pakistan's 11th President excluding acting presidents

Allah kher kare, Allah Pakistan ka hami aur nasir ho....Ameen

Zabardast

lol...he got some 65% of votes...and none is on this forum happy so far...

ehsan

The final result:

Zardari: 479
Siddiqui: 153
Mushahid: 43

The total electoral votes are 702 of which 675 were cast.

Zardari received 68% of the total vote of the electoral college and 71% of the votes cast.

Sa1eem

People in NA, Senate and provincial assembly are representatives of the people and what they vote is what people want. Presidential election should clear what people really want in Pakistan. People want Zardari to be President of Pakistan (well, something achieved because Thug Nawaz wanted Zardari badly as President, so he did all to make President Musharraf step down so that Zardari can get into the office of President). Further, people want clean Judiciary and thus wanted unclean Iftikhar out of Judiciary as all who voted Zardari knew his stand on Iftikhar.

Let see what this thug Zardari who is gift to Pakistan from Nawaz would do. One thing is for sure and that is, Zardari and Nawaz are not politicians but crooks who do not care for Pakistan but their own pocket. Zardari is new on top and we do not know what he can do, as in the past he was working under BB, but as for Nawaz, he has certainly harmed, looted, and divided Pakistan.

Zardari till now did only financial corruptions but I hope that he is not dangerous for the country, but Nawaz is certain dangerous to the country. Certain misdeeds of Nawaz as Prime Minister is that, Nawaz tried to bribe or fought against Judiciary (1 ... Sajjad Ali Shah), Presidency (2 ... Ishaq Khan, Musharraf) and Armed forces (2 ... Jahangir Karamat and Musharraf) for the sake of his personal financial and power gains, something at least BB never did. As Chief Minister, he tried everything to destabilise the government of BeNazir in Islamabad (harming the country). BB has no such record.

To me, the situation Pakistan is in, could be the start of a journey that can destroy Pakistan unless Army moves in with intention to shoot and clean corrupts like Zardari and Nawaz, or a bloody revolution that bring similar results. I hope that I am wrong, but on the other hand, it is no good that after all is gone, we sing about our bad luck.

mAd_ScIeNtIsT

Contrast with the Gupshup poll , GupShup Forums - View Poll Results , which showed
Asif Ali Zardari (PPP) 6 11.76%
Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui (PML-N) 35 68.63%
Mushahid Hussain (PML-Q) 10 19.61%

Evidentally Gupshup is distanced from the political realities of Pakistan.

GoldenAsif

Haris

Pakistan se Zinda Bhag

&

Na Tera Pakistan hai Na Mera Pakistan hai
Ye us ka Pakistan hai jo sadr-e-Pakistan hai

both are truer than ever today.

As Musharraf as had said with hands raised as a closing gesture in his resignation address;

"Pakistan ka Khuda Hafiz Ho"

Zabardast

Zabardast

Nope...we are outlaws...