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News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 year ago
Mr Zardari, of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), secured 480 out of 702 electoral college votes beating out opponents Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, a former judge, and Mushahid Hussain Sayed, a senior official of the party that backed former president...
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News Source: The independent
| about 1 year ago
Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's controversial widower and political heir, is to be sworn in as Pakistan's new President after his landslide victory yesterday in an indirect election to succeed Pervez Musharraf. Members of the national and...
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News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Asif Ali Zardari , the controversial widower of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto once plagued by corruption charges, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday and now must lead his troubled country out of the deepest crisis it has faced in...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants. In a grim reminder of the problems awaiting Asif Ali...
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News Source: Truthout
| about 1 year ago
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a controversial politician with little experience in governing, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday. Results from voting in the two houses of...
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News Source: Fox News
| about 1 year ago
A 17-year-old Pakistani girl forced to marry a 45-year-old when she was only nine was reportedly killed by her parents, according to the Weekend Australian. The murder has intensified despair among human rights workers in Pakistan over a recent...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
akistan People's Party Leader Asif Ali Zardari on Aug. 22. (Pakistan People's Party/Associated Press) Asif Ali Zardari easily won Saturday's vote to become Pakistan's next president. He took over as leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) after...
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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 year ago
Asif Ali Zardari won the presidency of Pakistan Saturday, in a vote that continued the country's shift from military rule and completed a political resurrection for the controversial spouse of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The final tally from...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan’s parliament is set to elect Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s 14th president on Saturday in a special session summouned for this purpose in Islamabad. Provincial assembles will also meet in the provincial capitals as they also form part...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has won Pakistan's presidential election, according to unofficial results tally released today. Zardari, who had been widely expected to win, had secured 458 out of 702...