Zardari sworn in as Pakistan’s new president

Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was sworn in as the country’s 14th president on Sunday. Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath in a ceremony at the presidential palace in Islamabad attended by civil and military leaders.

Zardari, the co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), is the first civilian to be re-elected as president for a second five-year term.

Zardari, 68, led the PPP after his wife was assassinated in a bomb and gun attack in 2007, and he became president in 2008.