Mamnoon Hussain takes oath as 12th president of Pakistan

PoliticsMamnoon Hussain takes oath as 12th president of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Mamnoon Hussain has taken oath as the twelfth president of Pakistan on Monday.

The oath was administered by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at a ceremony held at the Presidency.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, former president Asif Ali Zardari, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and members of the federal cabinet attended the ceremony.

Mamnoon Hussain bagged 432 votes of the Electoral College in the presidential elections held on 30th of July this year.

His rival Wajihuddin Ahmed of PTI took 77 votes while the main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party boycotted the vote.

The seventy-three years old Mamnoon Hussain is a businessman turned politician. He was born in Agra in 1940 and came with his family to Karachi after 1947.

He studied at the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. Mamnoon Hussain remained Governor of Sindh from 19th June‚ 1999 to 12th October 1999.

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