Islamabad, Sept 6: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as the 11th President of the Pakistan.

Zardari was elected through a secret ballot by the two chambers of its Parliament, the National Assembly and Senate, and the four Provincial Assemblies.

The other contestants in the Presidential election were Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Mushahid Hussain Syed of Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q).

Islamabad - The voting for the Pakistani presidential elections ended and counting was going on in two houses of the national parliament and four provincial assemblies Saturday.

According to the initial unofficial results, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was leading in two provincial assemblies.

Islamabad, Sept 6 : Though his party the PPP has brought forth strong defence in support of his mental health, some of his party insiders say that PPP Co-chairman and presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari seems paranoid at times because of intense public scrutiny, numerous threats to his life and his wife''s highly public assassination last year.

According to the Washington Post, Zardari''s circle of trusted aides and advisers is “relatively small as a result”.

Peshawar, Sept 6: On the sidelines of Pakistan Police’s investigation into the murderous attack on one of its diplomats in Peshawar on August 26, a team of US officials will also separately hold a probe into the incident.

The botched attack on Principal Officer of the American Consulate in Peshawar, Lynne Tracy occurred outside her residence in the University Town on Rahman Baba Road in the posh University Town locality.

Karachi, Sept 6: A new study has found that the Hindus belonging to lower (Scheduled) castes are unofficially declared as “untouchables” and are given a second-grade-citizen treatment. Their kids are made to clean the school premises and are forces to sit on back benches.

The study also found that Hindu women belong to scheduled castes were the most vulnerable and considered “sexually available by men” of Muslim-dominated communities. Since the SC Hindus are economically weaker with no social support or political leverage in the community, their young women/ girls were lured into matrimony or abducted and wed through forced conversions.

Rawalpindi, Sept 6 : Gen Tariq Majid, the Chairman of Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) has said that his country reserves the right to appropriately retaliate against unilateral attacks by coalition forces from Afghanistan.

The statement comes in the wake of recent strikes by US and NATO forces in Pakistan’s tribal areas and statements emanating from the US that such cross-border strikes were “a necessity” to counter the violence in Afghanistan.

“Pakistan reserves the right to appropriately retaliate in future,” the Daily Times quoted Tariq as saying at a meeting with German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung who called on him at the Joint Staff Headquarters here last evening.