All the office-bearers were elected for a period of four years. Marri has replaced Nafisa Shah as the Secretary Information while the other three top office-bearers remain the same.
The PPPP was formed in from within the PPP to counter a law that prohibited the parties led by convicted leaders from contesting the polls. Security around the National Assembly building in Islamabad was tight, with police on the roof and at the gates and riot police on site.
As the voting took place, a suicide car bomb exploded in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, including eight police officers, local police spokesman Fazal Karim said. Eight-one others were wounded. The explosion happened at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar, about 4 miles 7 kilometers from the Provincial Assembly in Pakistan, where some of the presidential voting was taking place.
The province is near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan and is rife with Islamic extremists. Share this on:. Zardari will rule a nuclear power threatened by Islamic militancy Next Article in World ». E-mail to a friend.
Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg del. Zardari has constructed alliances with other parties that mean his opponents, Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, the candidate put up by his former coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif's party, and Mushahid Hussain, a contender from Musharraf's old party, will be easily defeated.
If there was a direct election, there's no question that Zardari would come in last. Zardari insists that outside the chattering classes, he is popular. His party is also keen to stress that he is a substantial politician, having previously served as a member of parliament and twice as a minister. He worked very closely with Ms Bhutto and was her principal adviser," said Farahnaz Ispahani, a Zardari aide and member of parliament. Zardari fell out bitterly with coalition partner Sharif over the issue of the judiciary but outmanoeuvred the twice ex-prime minister.
A further clash with Sharif, who runs the powerful provincial government of the Punjab, looks inevitable, a re-run of the confrontation between Islamabad and the richest province that caused massive instability in the s. He spent eleven and a half years in prison in conditions often unacceptable by human rights standards, without any charge ever being proven against him. He won election as MNA and as senator while in prison. Despite many offers from the government of the time to leave Pakistan Peoples Party PPP or to go abroad under a negotiated political exit, he remained committed to Party goals and continued his fight for justice and the return of a democratically elected civilian leadership.
In October , then-President Pervez Musharraf issued a controversial decree that eventually resulted in most court proceedings against Zardari being dropped. Benazir Bhutto and Pervez Musharraf, in a reconciliation deal, agreed that six other graft charges against her husband would be dismissed by the government.
That case related to importing a German-made luxury car without paying a duty. On 25 March a court in the Pakistani southern port city of Karachi acquitted widower of slain leader Benazir Bhutto in a murder case of a judge and his son. Asif Ali Zardari was charged in the assassination of double murder of High Court Judge Justice Nizam Ahmed and his son Nadim Ahmed, a lawyer, who were shot dead in an attack on June 10, , outside their house in Karachi. Zardari's lawyer Shadat Awan said that the prosecution failed to produce any evidence against his client and that the case was filed on political grounds.
Zardari still faced a case of alleged narcotics smuggling and the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, the slain brother of Benazir Bhutto. After Ms. Bhutto's death he remained in the frontlines of shaping a national consensus at the federal level on the politics initiated by Benazir Bhutto. The PPP, under Mr. Zardari's leadership, helped to remove General retd Pervez Musharraf, the unconstitutional President of Pakistan, from office in a historic move, through a series of complex negotiations and political diplomacy.
Zardari united Pakistan's major political parties and this unprecedented act was accomplished without any violence. On September 6, Mr. Zardari was elected President of Pakistan with an overwhelming majority in the presidential election.
Under Mr. This was a singular and unprecedented event in Pakistan's political history. President Asif Ali Zardari is also Vice President of the Socialist International, the worldwide organisation of social-democratic, socialist and labour parties which brings together political parties and organisations from all continents. The Socialist International held its 23rd Congress in Athens, Greece from 30 June to 2 July with close to representatives from parties and organisations of countries attending.
The President of Pakistan at that time invited in his capacity as Co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party was elected as a vice-president of the Socialist International at that meeting. Political analysts say Zardari's strong political support in the legislatures and Musharraf's expansion of presidential powers could make Zardari the country's most powerful civilian president.
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