Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari stepped down Sunday, leaving his official residence after a record five years in power overshadowed by worsening security and a weakening economy.
Pakistani lawmakers have elected Mamnoon Hussain, the candidate for the ruling party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, as the country's 12th president.
Pakistan's main state prosecutor in the 2007 murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been shot dead en route to a court hearing on the Bhutto case.