It all depends on politicians' behaviour: a serving Gen

Saturday’s presidential elections saw Asif Ali Zardari overwhelmingly voted in as head of state. Zardari whose favourite film is The Godfather will now take centre stage as he is sworn in as the country’s most powerful President.

“Not even a novelist with the most fertile imagination could have come up with this one,” said a political analyst.

“Nobody could have imagined this a year ago,” Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who led the PPP while Benazir Bhutto was in exile and is still its parliamentary leader, told The Sunday Times. “It wasn’t even a nightmare.”

“After Benazir he (Zardari) is the next target,” said a government minister. “Being President is the only way we can give him the protection he needs.”

Others point out that the Presidency is the one post in the Pakistan administration that does not require the holder to disclose his assets.

According to The Times, promised by Zardari that Amin Fahim would be named prime minister, he now sits alone in his parliamentary lodgings, thinking of what might have been.