Pakistan lawmakers vote for president

By NNN-PTI,

Islamabad : Pakistani lawmakers today voted in the presidential poll expected to be swept by the ruling PPP chief Asif Ali Zardari.


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52-year-old Zardari is engaged in a three-corner fight with PML-N candidate Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui and opposition PML-Q leader Mushahid Hussain Sayed.

He is expected to win easily despite the PML-N’s decision last month to pull out of the ruling coalition as the PPP co-Chairman has the backing of several smaller parties and independent lawmakers.

Chief Election Commission Qazi Muhammad Farooq supervised the polling in a joint sitting of the 100-member Senate and the 342-strong National Assembly, the two houses of Parliament.

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