{"id":12532,"date":"2024-03-10T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=12532"},"modified":"2024-03-10T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T11:48:33","slug":"asif-ali-zardari-sworn-in-as-pakistans-14th-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/asif-ali-zardari-sworn-in-as-pakistans-14th-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Asif Ali Zardari Sworn In As Pakistan\u2019s 14th President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Mar 10: Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday took oath as<a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/army-opens-fire-on-pakistani-drone-in-poonch-2\/\"> Pakistan<\/a>\u2019s 14th President, a day after the veteran politician was overwhelmingly elected as the next head of state.<br \/>\nChief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath to the 68-year-old Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the Presidential Palace.<br \/>\nZardari will replace Dr Arif Alvi, who stayed in office for five more months despite completing his five-year term in September 2023.<br \/>\nThe swearing-in ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, all three service chiefs, senior officials and diplomats.<br \/>\nZardari, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman, the joint candidate of the ruling alliance, was elected as the country\u2019s president for the second time on Saturday after he defeated PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai by a huge margin.<br \/>\nHe secured 411 electoral votes in <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/mp-jugal-kishor-inaugurates-mega-exhibition-gatisheel-jammu-and-kashmir\/\">Parliament<\/a> and all four provincial assemblies with the backing of allied parties \u2014 mainly Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P).<br \/>\nHis rival, Achakzai bagged 181 votes as he was only able to secure the majority of votes in the PTI-backed SIC-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.<br \/>\nThis is the second time Zardari has won the presidency. He earlier served as the 11th president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013 and has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018.<br \/>\nBorn in 1955, Zardari was brought up and educated in Karachi. He was married to Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto\u2019s daughter, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in December 2007.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12533\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12533\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-5.17.23-PM-300x180.png\" alt=\"Asif Ali Zardari Sworn In As Pakistan\u2019s 14th President\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asif Ali Zardari Sworn In As Pakistan\u2019s 14th President<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Mar 10: Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday took oath as Pakistan\u2019s 14th President, a day after the veteran politician was overwhelmingly elected as the next head of state. Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath to the 68-year-old Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the Presidential Palace. Zardari will replace Dr Arif Alvi, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,22,89,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-header","category-international","category-national","category-political"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Asif Ali Zardari Sworn In As Pakistan\u2019s 14th President<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday took oath as Pakistan\u2019s 14th President, a day after the veteran politician was overwhelmingly\" \/>\n<meta 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