Asif Ali Zardari, the joint candidate of PPP and PML-N, has been elected as 14th president of Pakistan. Zardari received majority votes of the electoral college, comprising the parliament and provincial assemblies, paving way for him to assume the office of President of Pakistan, for the second time in country’s parliamentary history. The PPP co-Chairman received 411 votes while the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) backed candidate Mehmood Khan Achakzai, the home of PTI independents, only managed to get 181 votes.
