ISLAMABAD: Newly-elected President Arif Alvi takes oath of the office in Islamabad today.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar will administer the oath to him at a ceremony which is expected to commence at 1:00pm.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa are likely to attend the oath-taking ceremony.
Mr Alvi replaces outgoing President Mamnoon Hussain who relinquished his office on Saturday after his five-year presidential term ended.
Mr Hussain, who assumed the office of the top constitutional post on Sept 09, 2013, stayed in the Presidency for a constitutional period of five years.
He was presented a farewell guard of honour by a contingent of the armed forces at the President House as he officially left the Presidency.
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.
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