Asif Zardari can win presidential polls easily

The ruling coalition has calculated that its presidential candidate, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari will get more than 400 votes as the upcoming presidential election is scheduled for Saturday, March 9. 

Zardari is contesting against Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) head Mahmood Khan Achakzai, who is the presidential candidate for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC). 

Senate and National Assembly members will use secret ballots to vote at the Parliament House for the presidential elections, whipe polling will also take place in the four provincial assemblies.

As many as 325 members of the National Assembly, 91 senators, 354 members of the Punjab Assembly, 157 members of the Sindh Assembly, 117 members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and 65 members of the Balochistan Assembly will cast their vote.

The ruling coalition parties, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), National Party (NP), Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), have declared their support for Zardari while PTI-backed SIC and Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen have assured their support to Achakzai.