Pakistan elected new President
Pakistani lawmakers elected a textiles magnate, Mamnoon Hussain to be the next president of a country plagued by Islamic extremism, only hours after Taliban militants launched a mass prison break freeing 100s of inmates. Pakistan’s president is not elected by popular vote, but by lawmakers in the Senate, National Assembly and the assemblies of the four provinces.
Hussain was born to an industrialist family in 1940 in the Indian city of Agra. His family settled in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, after Pakistan was carved out of British India in 1947, and set up a textile business there. Hussain is a longtime member of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party and served as governor of Sindh for about four months in 1999.
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