Mamnoon Hussain elected 12th President of Pakistan

[Edevelop]

ISLAMABAD: Ruling party candidate Mamnoon Hussain was elected as the 12th President of Pakistan on Tuesday, replacing Asif Ali Zardari whose five-year term expires in September.

Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ebrahim said Hussain received a total of 432 votes from the two houses of Parliament and the four provincial assemblies.

Hussain, a 73-year-old textile businessman from Karachi, will be sworn in on Sept 9 at the presidency due to be vacated by incumbent Asif Ali Zardari.

Hussain, who will be president for five years, resigned his membership of the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) soon after the election results were announced, in what is seen as a symbolic move to establish himself as a non-partisan president.

Hussain has been an active member of the PML-N since the 1960s. He was governor of Sindh from June to October 1999 when Sharif's government was overthrown by the then army chief General Pervez Musharraf.

The new president was elected by an electoral college made up of members of the Senate, National Assembly and the assemblies of the four provinces. Voting was held with secret ballots at two polling booths from 10am to 3pm.

According to the official results announced by Ebrahim, 432 votes were cast in favour of Hussain. Mamnoon required 263 votes to win, a target comfortably achieved with the 277 votes cast in the National Assembly and Senate.

A total of 77 votes were polled in favour of Justice Retd Wajihuddin Ahmed, the competing candidate backed by the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), while nine votes were declared invalid, said the chief election commissioner.

27 electoral votes were cast in the Sindh Assembly, out of which 25 were polled to Mamnoon Hussain while two went to Wajihuddin.

Hussain secured 55 votes out of 56 votes cast in the Balochistan Assembly, while Wajihuddin could get only one vote.

57 electoral votes were cast at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, where Wajihuddin took the lead by bagging 36 votes against Mamnoon Hussain, who got 21.

Out of total 58 electoral votes validly cast at the Punjab Assembly, Mamnoon Hussain received 54 and Wajihuddin 4.

Earlier, Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim visited the National Assembly while polling was underway. The voters had been requested to leave their cellphones, cameras etc outside the polling booths for the duration of the election.

Strict security arrangements were in place at the National Assembly, the four provincial assemblies and the Senate for the occasion.

PML-N candidate Mamnoon Hussain also arrived at the National Assembly premises while lawmakers were casting their votes.

The main opposition party in the National Assembly, the Pakistan Peoples Party, had withdrawn its candidate and announced a boycott of the election over reservations on the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to reschedule the poll.

The Awami National Party (ANP), Pakistan Muslim League - Quaid (PML-Q), Balochistan National Party - Awami (BNP-A) and the Awami Muslim League (AML) also boycotted the election.

Mamnoon Hussain elected 12th President of Pakistan - DAWN.COM

 

[Leader]

sadar-e-mamnoooonnnnn, sadar-e-mamnooon...

 

[Edevelop]

PTI congratules Mamnoon Hussain on being elected as President

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan stopped short of formally admitting defeat of his party, as he congratulated their competitor, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Mamnoon Hussain on winning Tuesday’s presidential elections.

In a statement released by the PTI Central office, Imran said that the President is the head of the state and a symbol of federation and that the PTI hopes the new elected President would perform his constitutional duties without being beholden to any party affiliation.

According to the initial vote count, PML-N’s candidate Mamnoon Hussain has been elected as Pakistan’s 12th president, comfortably securing the majority vote in the presidential election.

“We hope that Mamnoon Hussain will rise above party affiliation to perform his constitutional duties,” the statement read.

Earlier, Imran lamented that the presidential elections had already become controversial. “We could have registered our protest by boycotting it; but then we could not hope to stop the government from getting their candidate elected. So we decided not to leave the field open for them.”

http://tribune.com.pk/story/584167/pti-congratules-mamnoon-hussain-on-being-elected-as-president/

 

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Mamnoon Hussain: A man of principles

KARACHI: Residents of Allahwala Market of Arambagh were filled with joy on Tuesday when one of their own was elected as the 12th president of Pakistan.

Welcoming media persons with warm smiles, as they tried to locate the family residence of president Mamnoon Hussain, community members made their way through the busy streets of this commercial hub towards the ground floor of the Ghayan Singh Building on Tirath Singh Lalwani Road, at the back of Allahwala market, where Hussain lived till 1999.

The multi-storey building, now derelict and closed for over a decade, once housed the country’s new president where he lived in a three bedroom house till he became the 27th governor of Sindh, during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s previous regime.

Hussain, who had a cloth shop at Bolten Market, lived in the area with his brothers and uncles who occupied separate houses in the same locality. Hussain’s elder brother, Akhtar Hussain is well known amongst residents of Allahwala market, where he served as president while running the family business. Born on December 23, 1940 in Agra, Hussain shifted to Karachi after partition with his father Azhar Hussain and other family members. Schooled in traditional religious education, the president completed his matriculation in 1958 and was awarded a B.Com Honors degree from the Government College of Commerce. Subsequently, he attended the prestigious Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi, from where he graduated in 1965.

In 1970, he married the daughter of the owner of one of Karachi’s most famous bakeries, Fresco. The incoming president has three sons who are associated with the banking industry and business.

Belonging to a family with old ties to the locality of Tirath Singh Lalwani Road and Allahwala market, Hussain too enjoys a reputation of being a man of principles.

“He was a polite, simple man with principles. The family never had any problems with anyone in the area and were known to be religious, with an export business to different countries,” said Mohammad Aslam, a resident of the Ghayan Singh Building and a childhood friend of Hussain.

Recalling memories of his childhood, Aslam said that he often played cricket and basketball with Hussain, in a ground close to Arambagh.

Political career

Hussain, who has remained associated with the Muslim League from the beginning, was introduced to formal politics by his close friend and mentor Abdul Khaliq Allahwala, a former member of the National Assembly in the 1960s. Quickly making a mark in the League, Hussain rose to become joint secretary of the party in 1967.

In 1999, he was elected as the president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI) and was soon selected by Nawaz Sharif to become governor of Sindh in June 1999. However, Hussain’s stint as governor ended abruptly after less than six months, when the Nawaz government was overthrown by the then military chief Pervez Mushrraf.

During his political career, Hussain has held important portfolios in a party he will soon have to say goodbye too. He remained the provincial general secretary of PML-N and has also served as party’s acting provincial president of Sindh chapter. He was PML-N’s central senior vice president and has also served as an adviser to Sindh’s ex-chief minister, Liaquat Ali Jatoi

http://tribune.com.pk/story/584392/mamnoon-hussain-a-man-of-principles/

 

[Patriots]

Nawaz Sharif found a President with a 'NOON' in his name "MamNOON"

 

[CENTCOM]

We congratulate the nation of Pakistan on the election of the New President. The historical transition of one democratically elected to another shows the commitment of the Pakistani nation to the process of democracy. We hope to continue on the path of cooperation and better working relationship with the new president as well. We repeat what Richard B. Olson, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, said right before the General Elections in April: “The U.S. affirms it is solely up to the people of Pakistan to determine their future leadership. The U.S. is backing democracy, and the strengthening of Pakistan’s civilian institutions through the electoral process. The U.S. does not support any particular political party or individual candidate.”

Ali Khan
DET, United States Central Command

 

[Pakistanisage]

Congratulations to President Mamnoon Hussain and may he serve his Nation with Honour and Dignity.