{"id":257331,"date":"2024-03-10T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=257331"},"modified":"2024-03-10T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T06:01:33","slug":"asif-ali-zardari-elected-pakistans-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=257331","title":{"rendered":"Asif Ali Zardari Elected Pakistan&#8217;s New President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, March 10&nbsp;&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; Asif Ali Zardari, a businessman and veteran of Pakistan&#8217;s politics, was on Saturday elected president for a second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zardari, 68, the widower of Pakistan&#8217;s assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, won the presidential election against Mahmood Khan Achakzai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was backed by an alliance that included his Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Achakzai was backed by the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), an alliance that has absorbed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislators who won as independents in the Feb&nbsp;8 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s president is elected through an indirect vote, with the electoral college comprising national and provincial assembly members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zardari earlier served as president between 2008 and 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, March 10&nbsp;&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; Asif Ali Zardari, a businessman and veteran of Pakistan&#8217;s politics, was on Saturday elected president for a second time. Zardari, 68, the widower of Pakistan&#8217;s assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, won the presidential election against Mahmood Khan Achakzai. He was backed by an alliance that included his Pakistan People&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":231828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257332,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257331\/revisions\/257332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}