Mugabe wins seventh term as the President of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, extending a thirty three year reign , has won a seventh term in office, officials say, amid claims of electoral fraud.

Mugabe, 89, who has ruled the former British colony in southern Africa since its independence in 1980, was formally proclaimed re-elected for a five-year term barely an hour after Tsvangirai announced his planned legal challenge.

Sources: BBC, NBC, Reuters

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.