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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.
At least 16 people were killed and around 80 wounded Saturday when suicide car bombing ripped through a security checkpost outside Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.
The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide victory
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a controversial politician with little experience, was elected president of Pakistan.
A pickup truck packed with a large amount of explosives blew up a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest Saturday, killing at least 13 people and injuring nearly 60 in an attack that may have been intended for a more important target, police said.
The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as the president of Pakistan.
PESHAWAR (AFP)--The death toll from a suicide blast at a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan has risen to 33, after more bodies were found and several people died in the hospital, police said Sunday.
The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide victory in Saturday's election.
Divisive figure faces internal crises and pressure from U.S. Asif Ali Zardari, the controversial widower of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto once plagued by corruption charges, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday and now must lead his troubled country out of the deepest crisis it has faced in years.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
Pakistan lawmakers voted Saturday in a presidential election that slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari is widely expected to win.
At least 16 people were killed and about 80 wounded when a suicide car bombing ripped through a security checkpost outside Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police said Saturday.
An explosives-laden car rammed into a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest Saturday, setting off a massive blast that killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 50 others, police said.
Just over nine months after his wife, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in a suicide attack, Asif Ali Zardari has been chosen as the new president of Pakistan. His election Saturday has been received warily by the Pakistani public. It came on a day marred by death and mayhem after a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar killed at least 30 people.
At least four people were killed and about 30 injured Saturday when a powerful blast ripped through a security checkpost outside Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.
Pakistan lawmakers started voting Saturday in a presidential election that slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari is widely expected to win.
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