The World - News from Dec. 13, 1988

Ghulam Ishaq Khan easily won election to his first five-year term as Pakistan’s president, and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto won her first parliamentary vote of confidence after the Nov. 16 elections. Under the constitution, the governing party must pass a vote of confidence in the National Assembly within 60 days of forming a government. The vote for Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party was 148 to 55. Ishaq Khan, the acting president since Gen. Zia ul-Haq died in a plane crash nearly four months ago, won 78% of the presidential votes cast by an electoral college of the Senate, National Assembly and four provincial assemblies.