This handout photograph taken and released on March 3, 2024 by the Pakistan National Assembly, shows Pakistan’s former President Asif Ali Zardari greeting newly-elected Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the Parliament House in Islamabad. — AFP picISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 — Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Pakistan’s slain first female leader Benazir Bhutto, was voted in as president for a second time today, local media reported, after elections marred by rigging claims.
Zardari was voted in with 411 votes to 181 for the opposition-backed candidate, according to a local media tally of votes by national MPs, provincial MPs and senators. Lawmakers of Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party voted Zardari into the largely ceremonial post, backed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party in an alliance forged after the February 8 polls.
Under the terms of the coalition pact, which also includes a handful of smaller parties, PML-N’s Shehbaz Sharif was sworn-in as prime minister on Monday.The election commission will announce the official result later today, with Zardari expected to be sworn in at a ceremony tomorrow. — AFP
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