Mr ten percent now president

As I have said before this is not a good idea, but Benazir' Bhutto's widower has been elected president of pakistan. Pakistan needs a fresh honest face to help heal the country. zardari comes with a lot of personal baggage and enemies. I doubt he will bring much stability to this troubled land. I doubt he has the needed strength to battle the ISI and round up jihadi terrorists.

Bhutto's widower goes from prison to presidency

By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Asif Ali Zardari has completed a traumatic journey from prison to the presidency of Pakistan.

Regarded as a polo-playing playboy in his youth, the catalyst for Zardari's rise was the assassination last December of his wife, the two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

After leading Bhutto's grieving party to a general election victory in February, Zardari played a deft hand to force former president Pervez Musharraf from office in August, nine years after the then army chief came to power in a military coup.

The presidency caps a remarkable transformation for Zardari, who spent 11 years in prison on charges of corruption and murder, although he denied all accusations and was never convicted. He was released on bail in 2004.