In a landslide electoral victory on Saturday, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former Pakistani Prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was elected the new President of Pakistan by the upper and lower chambers of the Pakistani Parliament.
He will succeed Pervez Musharraf, the former President and army general who resigned last month under calls for his impeachment.
Riding to a wave of victory on his own calls for reform and the outpouring of love still felt for his late wife, who was assassinated in December of 2007, Zardari must seek to maintain ties to the West while cracking down on the regrouped Taliban regime that still operates in Pakistan's mountainous tribal regions, largely unchecked.
He must maintain and increase the stability of his country, a nuclear power that is both a lifelong adversary of India and a breeding ground for Islamic extremists.
He was reminded on the day of his election just how difficult a task that will be, as a suicide bomber killed 17 people in the northwest city of Peshawar...the same city where his wife was murdered by extremists just nine months ago.
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