Asif Ali Zardari speaks to the BBC’s Aamer Ahmed Khan on Pakistan’s next prime minister, his new friendship with Nawaz Sharif and an ongoing enmity with President Musharraf
One month after Pakistan’s landmark elections, the country still has no prime minister.
The man who is playing a key role in deciding who will hold this post is Benazir Bhutto’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, who now heads her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). He has emerged from the 18 February elections as one of the most powerful politicians in the country. The nondescript street where he lives in Islamabad is little different from any other apart from the large blocks of concrete strewn randomly across it to prevent any suicide car bomb attackers.
Numerous men in black, with the word Benazir blazoned across their T-shirts, efficiently frisk anyone who enters the street.
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