{"id":42650,"date":"2013-09-09T19:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=42650"},"modified":"2013-09-09T19:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:37:57","slug":"indian-born-mamnoon-hussain-sworn-in-as-12th-president-of-pakistan-42650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indian-born-mamnoon-hussain-sworn-in-as-12th-president-of-pakistan-42650\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-born Mamnoon Hussain sworn in as 12th president of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42651\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42651  \" alt=\"Pakistan president Manmoon Hussain being sworn-in.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-9-600x360.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-9-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-9-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pakistan-President-Nationalturk-9.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistan president Manmoon Hussain being sworn-in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Manmoon Hussain was Monday sworn as 12th president of Pakistan after his predece-ssor Asif Ali Zardari completed his tenure on Sunday.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Sept 9\/Nationalturk \u2013 Indian born Manmoon Hussain was Monday sworn as 12th president of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>His predecessor Asif Ali Zardari completed his five-year tenure on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice of \u00a0Supreme Court of Pakistan Iftikhar Ali Chaudhry administered the oath of office to Manmoon at Aiwan-e-Sadr (Presidency) here today. \u00a0The oath-taking ceremony was attended by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The outgoing Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari was among others, who attended the function.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old Hussain, who become the 12th President of Pakistan, has spent most of his life as a key member of the business community in Karachi.<\/p>\n<h2>Manmoon was elected by lawmakers on July 30<\/h2>\n<p>Manmoon Hussain, who was born in India, was elected on July 30, 2013 by lawmakers of the four provincial assemblies and the parliament (National Assembly).<\/p>\n<p>Manmoon, a candidate of ruling Pakistan Muslim League \u2013 Nawaz (PML-N) which won the May 11 general elections, received a clear majority of votes of lawmakers against Justice (retd) Wajihuddin, the presidential nominee of opposition party, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI). The Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) had boycotted the election. He won 432 votes and his only rival, Wajihuddin Ahmed only 77 in the presidential poll.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to taking oath, Manmoon had told reporters that he wanted to be a symbol of the federation.<\/p>\n<p>He said the role of the president is to make important decisions on the advice of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a president serves as a facilitator by following the law and the Constitution, what\u2019s the problem with that?\u201d he had earlier question questioned.<\/p>\n<p>The former president Asif Ali Zardari, who earned the distinction of being the first civilian president in Pakistan to complete his tenure, was given a farewell guard of honour in Islamabad on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manmoon Hussain was Monday sworn as 12th president of Pakistan after his predecessor Asif Ali Zardari completed his tenure on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[58333,13980,58334,39108,58331,58332,58329,58335,11703,47255,58330,6350,44685,51712,636,23297,58336,56404,42698,56415],"class_list":["post-42650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-aiwan-e-sadr","tag-asif-ali-zardari","tag-business-community","tag-chief-justice","tag-five-year-tenure","tag-iftikhar-ali-chaudhry","tag-indian-born","tag-justice-retd-wajihuddin","tag-karachi","tag-lawmakers","tag-manmoon-hussain","tag-national-assembly","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-oath-taking-ceremony","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-prime-minister","tag-pakistan-tehrik-i-insaf","tag-president-of-pakistan","tag-pti","tag-supreme-court-of-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}