President Asif Ali Zardari is addressing a joint session of the Parliament wherein the Chief Justice of Pakistan, provincial governors, chief ministers, chairman joint chiefs of staff committee, services chiefs, and others are also invited.
Islamabad: President Zardari addresses joint sitting of Parliament amid Opp protest. This is the first joint session since the unity government took power after winning the February 8 general elections.
As per Article 56(3) of the Constitution, the President shall address a joint session of the Parliament at the commencement of the parliamentary year.
MNAs and Senators from the PPP and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) held sloganeering against each other’s leadership in the joint sitting.
National Assembly security personnel prevented the filming of the meeting from the press gallery. During the President’s address, the portrait of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed is placed on the dais.
Record seventh address by President Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari is addressing the session record seventh time to the joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate.
During his five-year stint in the Presidency from 2008 to 2013, Asif Zardari addressed the parliament six times.
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Newly elected Assefa Bhutto becomes center of attraction
Asifa Bhutto Zardari has become a center of special attention in the joint session of Parliament. Asifa Bhutto Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari entered together in the Lower House of the Parliament.
MPs held separate meetings with Asifa Bhutto Zardari wherein they congratulated Aseefa Bhutto on being elected as a member.
Asif Ali Zardari is a Pakistani politician serving as the 14th president of Pakistan since 10 March 2024. He is the president of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians and was the co-chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party.
He earlier served as the 11th president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013, the first president born after Independence. He is the widower of twice-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2018 to 2023, and in 2024.
The son of Hakim Ali Zardari, a landowner from Sindh, Zardari rose to prominence after his marriage to Benazir Bhutto in 1987, who became the Prime Minister of Pakistan after her election in 1988. When Bhutto’s government was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990, Zardari was widely criticized for involvement in corruption scandals that led to its collapse. When Bhutto was reelected in 1993, Zardari served as Federal Investment Minister and Chairperson of Pakistan Environmental Protection Council. Following increasing tensions between Bhutto’s brother Murtaza and Zardari, Murtaza was killed by police in Karachi on 20 September 1996. Bhutto’s government was dismissed a month later by President Farooq Leghari, while Zardari was arrested and indicted for Murtaza’s murder as well as corruption charges.
President Zardari addresses joint sitting of Parliament amid Opp protest
