Pakistan elections: special report (Image © K.M.Chaudary/AP/PA Photos)
Zardari urged to change image and focus
Zardari urged to change image and focus (Image © AP/PA Photos)

Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, must dispel the perception he is an artful politician and urgently address a deteriorating economy and worsening militant violence, newspapers said on Sunday.

Zardari, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept a presidential election by legislators on Saturday, winning 481 of 702 electoral college votes to cement his hold on power in nuclear-armed Pakistan.

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Factfile: the implications of Musharraf's resignation (Image © Fareed Khan/AP/PA Photos)
Factfile: the implications of Musharraf's resignation
Some of the political, economic and diplomatic implications of the resignation of Musharraf, 65, who came to power in a 1999 coup, promoted an investor-friendly environment and oversaw good growth and surging stocks until this year.
Background: Musharraf finally gives up "saving" Pakistan (Image © Reuters)
Background: Musharraf finally gives up "saving" Pakistan
Faced with the humiliation of impeachment, former army chief Pervez Musharraf quit as Pakistan president last month, having lost political, popular and increasingly even US support.
Musharraf - a brief biography (Image © AP Photo/Mian Khursheed, FILE)
Pervez Musharraf: a brief biography
MSN Encarta presents a potted history of the life of Pervez Masharraf, who ousted Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, in a bloodless coup on October 12, 1999.
A brief history of Pakistan, from MSN Encarta (Image © Burt Herman/AP/PA Photos)
A brief history of Pakistan, from MSN Encarta
The area of present-day Pakistan was the cradle of the earliest known civilisation of South Asia, the Indus Valley civilisation (2500?-1700BC). The territory was part of the Mughal Empire from 1526 until the 1700s, when it came under British rule.
Special report: the assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Image © PA)
Special report: the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, slain in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi in December, knew very well the risks she ran when she decided to wage a public campaign for the restoration of democracy.

In pictures: the 2008 Pakistan general elections

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