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Zardari elected Pakistani President
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On Saturday, September 06, 2008, widower of former Prime Minister and leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari elected to the presidency of Pakistan after the resignation of former President Pervez Musharraf for avoiding the impeachment, said, "democracy talks and everybody hears" in a short television address. Zardari was elected with 281 out of 426 parliamentary votes of the four provincial assemblies that form the presidential Electoral College.
Zardari was better known as Mr. Ten Percent during the administration of his wife Benazir Bhutto. He had served several years of jail term for the corruption cases. The then-President Musharraf withdrew all charges against him and his spouse as the gesture of reconciling with the PPP.
Some Pakistani lawyers charged Zardari with not reinstating the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan for fear of reopening the corruption cases against him.
The opposition parties have also accused Zardari of not doing away with amendments that Musharraf made to the country’s constitution for concentrating too much power in his hands. The changes made by former President Musharraf allow the president to dismiss the parliament and appoint leaders of the country’s all-powerful military.
