text: On 3 March 2024, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan confirmed that the Pakistani Parliament would meet on 9 March 2024 to elect a new President of Pakistan, which Zardari won with 411 votes from the national and provincial assemblies against Mahmood Khan Achakzai. He was elected as President on 9 March 2024 by securing 411 electoral votes and his opponent Mahmood Khan Achakzai secured 181 electoral votes.He sworn in as 14th President on 10 March 2024. He is first civilian to be elected as President for second non consecutive term.
  Opposition reaction
  Omar Ayub Khan, the opposition leader in the National Assembly of Pakistan, called Zardari ‘illegal’. PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan described his election "unconstitutional and unacceptable."
  Personal life
  Family
  Zardari and Benazir Bhutto had one son and two daughters. His son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is the current Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party. His older daughter, Bakhtawar, was born on 25 January 1990, and his younger daughter, Aseefa, was born on 3 February 1993. After Benazir Bhutto's death, his sister Faryal Talpur became the guardian of his children and he changed Bilawal Zardari's name to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
  His mother died in November 2002, during his detention in jail. His father Hakim Ali Zardari died in May 2011. After that he became the chieftain of the Zardari tribe. However, initially he had decided not to assume leadership and wanted to pass the position to his son Bilawal.