AMN / ISLAMABAD
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Dr Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi has been elected 13th President of Pakistan. Election Commission of Pakistan has officially announced the results of Presidential elections Tuesday. He will assume office on 9 September 2018
Arif Alvi has received 353 electoral votes while Fazlur Rehman 185 and Aitzaz Ahsan 124 votes.
According to the results of National Assembly and Senate, Arif Alvi bagged 211 votes, Fazl 131 and Aitzaz 81 votes. A total of 424 votes were balloted of these six were rejected.
In the Sindh Assembly, out of total of 158 votes, Aitzaz Ahsan bagged 100 votes while PTI candidate Arif Alvi secured 56. Two votes were rejected.
PTI candidate Arif Alvi won from Balochistan securing 45 votes. Opposition candidate Fazl-ul-Rehman received 15 while PPP’s Aitzaz Ahsan bagged zero votes.
Arif Alvi won by securing 78 votes in KP Assembly, Fazl received 26 while Aitzaz got 5 votes.
In Punjab, out of 354, 351 parliamentarians cast their votes. Arif Alvi secured 186, Fazl 141 and Aitzaz Ahsan 6 votes. 18 votes were rejected.
When our world was younger! Congratulations to Dr Alvi on being elected President. pic.twitter.com/C2HIueGRjc
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) September 4, 2018
Soon after elected as President Dr Alvi vowed to serve the people of Pakistan, without any party affiliation or discrimination and play his constitutional role in ensuring that every Pakistani gets his due share in shelter, health, education and employment.
“I pledge to serve all the people of Pakistan, without any discrimination, as I am not the President of any party, but of all the parties and of the people of all the provinces,” Arif Alvi told reporters soon after being declared successful by the electoral college comprising the members from the National Assembly and the Senate.
Who is Dr Arif Alvi?
THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Dr Alvi ’s political stint goes to a period of over five decades that commenced with his involvement in student politics as a president of the student union at de’Montmorency College of Dentistry in Lahore.
Dr Alvi played an eminent part of the 1969’s student movement during Gen Ayub Khan’s military regime and, as his party men say, was among those who stood for democracy in the country.
According to PTI activists, during one of the demonstrations at The Mall in Lahore, he was shot and wounded. However, he “still ‘proudly’ carries a bullet embedded in his right arm as an emblem of his struggle for democracy in Pakistan”.
A dentist by profession, Dr Alvi is credited to co-find PTI along with few other members. He contested for Sindh Assembly seats in the general elections of 1997 and 2002, but remained unsuccessful.
A prominent PTI stalwart, Dr Alvi is regarded as one of the authors of the PTI’s constitution. He was part of the party’s central executive council for a year since 1996 after which he was designated the position of party’s president in Sindh in 1997.
He was promoted to the post of vice president in 2001, following which he became the party’s secretary general in 2006, a post he worked for till 2013.
Dr Alvi also won from the NA-250 constituency of Karachi in the 2013 elections.
In the general election of July 25 2018, he was elected to the National Assembly from Karachi’s NA-247 after bagging 91,020 votes. His opponent, Syed Zaman Ali Jaffrey of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), mustered 24,680 votes only.