President Mamnoon's five-year term ends today

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain is set to relinquish his office as his five-year presidential term ends today. Newly elected president of the country Dr Arif Alvi will take oath of his office tomorrow (Sunday).

Mr Hussain, who assumed the office of the top constitutional post on Sept 09, 2013, will call it a day after staying in the Presidency for a constitutional period of five years.

He will be presented a guard of honour by a contingent of the armed forces at the President House.

President-elect Dr Arif Alvi will take oath as 13th head of state at a ceremony at the Presidency tomorrow. Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar will take oath from the president.

The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) candidate Dr Arif Alvi won the presidential election held on Sep 4 with 352 votes, followed by PML-N backed candidate Maulana Fazlur Rehman who managed to secure 184, while Aitzaz Ahsan of the PPP bagged 124 votes.

A total of 1, 110 members of both the houses of Parliament and four provincial assemblies cast their ballots in the presidential election. As many as 28 votes were rejected for some reasons as 1, 082 votes were declared valid.

After being elected as president of the country, Mr Alvi stepped down from his seat in the National Assembly.

He had won the constituency NA-247 (Karachi, South-II) in the July 25 elections with 91,020 votes defeating Syed Ali Zaman Jafferi of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan who could garner only 24,680 votes.