India-born Mamnoon Hussain elected as Pakistan's 12th president

• Pakistan has elected businessman Mamnoon Hussain (Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) Party) as its 12th president, replacing unpopular Asif Ali Zardari whose five-year term expires in September.
• Ally of Nawaz Sharif (who made him governor of Sindh in 1999)
• The office of the president is ceremonial in Pakistan but he is still the constitutional chief of the armed forces but cannot order deployments.
• Pakistan so far had 11 presidents, out of which five were military generals. 
• Four of them seized powers through coups.
• The president was indirectly elected by members of both houses of parliament and the four provincial assemblies.
• Under Zardari, the presidency was largely stripped of powers though he enjoyed considerable influence in the previous administration.
• After Nawaz Sharif's thumping election victory on May11, the success of his party's nominee in the presidential race was a foregone conclusion.