Voting for Pakistani's President Post is on the way since Pervez Musharraf, resigned as president last month. The winner is expected to be Asif Ali Zardari, the controversial widower of the late Benazir Bhutto. Voting is by the national assembly and four provincial assemblies.

The next president will have to tackle an Islamist insurgency and an economic crisis which are threatening the country's stability. Pakistanis hope that Asif Zardari will have more success, but they see little in his past to encourage them.The other candidates are Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui, a former judge who has the backing of Mr Sharif, and Mushahid Hussain Sayed, who was nominated by the PML-Q party that supported Mr Musharraf. There is only one round of voting and whoever has most of the 702 votes wins.