{"id":66545,"date":"2024-03-02T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/zardari-achakzai-submit-nomination-papers-for-president-slot-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T12:10:04","slug":"zardari-achakzai-submit-nomination-papers-for-president-slot-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/zardari-achakzai-submit-nomination-papers-for-president-slot-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Zardari, Achakzai submit nomination papers for president slot | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nISLAMABAD:
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The presidential candidate for the incoming coalition government, PPPP President Asif Ali Zardari, will face off against\u00a0Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) candidate <\/span>PkMAP chief\u00a0Mahmood Khan Achakzai.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nomination papers for both candidates were filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday. Farooq H. Naik and Saleem Mandviwala filed Zardari’s papers\u00a0while PTI leaders\u00a0Sardar Latif Khosa and\u00a0Omar Ayub Khan filed the papers for Achakzai before Chief Justice IHC Aamer Farooq – the presiding officer for the presidential polls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the ECP schedule, polling for the presidential election will be held on March 9<\/a> from 10 am\u00a0to 4 pm, while candidates vying for the constitutional post of the country can submit their nomination papers until Saturday noon in Islamabad and four provincial capitals \u2013 Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nomination papers will undergo scrutiny by the returning officer in Islamabad by 10 am on Monday (March 4). <\/span><\/p>\n

The candidates have the option to withdraw their nomination papers before the returning officer in Islamabad until noon on Tuesday (March 5).<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same day, the list of candidates will be made public.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read<\/strong>: <\/span>People voiced their will: President<\/a><\/p>\n

Incumbent President Dr Arif Alvi<\/a> is already on an extended tenure after completing his five-year term on Sept 9 last year.<\/p>\n

Article 44(1) of the Constitution says that the president will hold office for a term of five years from the day he assumes charge, but he continues to hold the office until a successor is chosen.<\/p>\n

Dr Alvi is the country\u2019s fourth democratically elected president to complete the five-year term. The three presidents before Dr Alvi who completed their full terms were Chaudhary Fazal Elahi (fifth president, from 1973 to 1978), Asif Ali Zardari (11th, from 2008 to 2013), and Mamnoon Hussain (12th, from 2013 to 2018).<\/p>\n

Therefore, Dr Alvi is the third consecutive president to have a full term and the first one to have an extended term due to an incomplete electoral college, which comprises the National Assembly, Senate and the four provincial assemblies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The presidential candidate for the incoming coalition government, PPPP President Asif Ali Zardari, will face off against\u00a0Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) candidate PkMAP chief\u00a0Mahmood Khan Achakzai. The nomination papers for both candidates were filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday. Farooq H. Naik and Saleem Mandviwala filed Zardari’s papers\u00a0while PTI leaders\u00a0Sardar Latif Khosa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/president1709367519-0\/president1709367519-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t