AFP, Bloomberg

Before Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party continues its power struggle with President Pervez Musharraf, it likely will face an internal power struggle over who will succeed her.
That process begins today, when its executive committee meets to name an interim chairman. Speculation in the Pakistani press has included Benazir’s sister and widower.
The PPP, a leading voice for the restoration of democracy since Musharraf’s 1990 military coup, has no obvious successor because it has always been an autocratic institution. [Read more]