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Pakistani legislators on Saturday elected Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), as the country’s 14th president, Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the ruling coalition, is the only politician elected to the country’s highest, yet symbolic, constitutional office for a second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He previously served as the president in 2008-2013 during the government of his own party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some small political parties, including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F) and Jamaat-e-Islami, boycotted the election and no MP from these parties cast their votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistani legislators on Saturday elected Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), as the country’s 14th president, Anadolu Agency reported. Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the ruling coalition, is the only politician elected to the country’s highest, yet symbolic, constitutional office …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":102250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7096],"class_list":["post-102249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-asif-ali-zardari-elected-as-president"],"yoast_head":"\n