Mamnoon Hussain elected as Pakistan's 12th president

ISLAMABAD: 

According to the initial vote count, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s candidate Mamnoon Hussain has been elected as Pakistan’s 12^th president, comfortably securing the majority vote in the presidential election, Express Newsreported on Tuesday.

Hussain will take oath on September 9.

The incumbent President Asif Ali Zardari, along with a number of politicians congratulated Hussain on his victory.

The table below shows the number of electoral votes received by the PML-N and PTI candidates.

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	Mamnoon Hussain	Justice (retd) Wajiuddin Ahmed
National Assembly + Senate	277	34
Punjab Assembly	60	4
Sindh Assembly	25	2
Balochistan Assembly	55	1
Khyber Paktunkhwa	21	36

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Mamnoon Hussain

Former Sindh governor and an alumnus of the Institute of Business Administration, from where he graduated in 1965, Hussain is an old loyalist of Nawaz Sharif and remained with the PML-N during the regime of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. He served as the governor of Sindh from June to October 1999 and lost the post after the then army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf toppled the PML-N government in a military coup in Oct 1999.

Hussain belongs to Sindh and lives in Karachi, where he owns a textile business. He  was born in Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1940. In 1993, he inched closer to the party leadership when Nawaz contested his own removal from the premier’s office by then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

According to analysts, picking Hussain as its presidential candidate would help the party counter the PPP’s claims that the PML-N was accommodating only Punjab-based politicians at offices in the centre. He contested the 2002 elections from NA-250 (Karachi) on PML-N ticket but had no luck. He is also a former president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI).

ECB seeking clarification from Daily Mail over match-fixing claims: PCB

KARACHI: 

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) distanced itself from recent match-fixing allegations on the five-match ODI series between Pakistan and West Indies on Tuesday.

The Daily Mail had claimed in a report that the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) was set to investigate alleged “wrongdoings” in the series.

It claimed that “suspicious batting patterns” had emerged during the matches which Pakistan won 3-1.

“If I was presented with this level of information, I would want this series investigated,” ECB information manager Chris Watts was quoted as saying.

“There are some classic signs [of wrong doing].”

The ECB, when questioned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Watt’s statement denied its involvement in raising suspicions on the series.

“The PCB has received assurance from ECB that it has not suggested that there was anything to be concerned about during the series,” said a PCB media release.

“ECB has confirmed that their official has not stated that the series should be investigated. ECB has also approached the newspaper to seek a suitable clarification,” the statement added.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) interim chairman Najam Sethi had earlier lashed out at the allegations.

“These are outrageous claims and we have been in touch with the ICC and insist on an investigation,” Sethi had said.