Pakistan: A Presidential Crisis at an Inopportune Moment

Various Pakistani opposition groups in the parliament announced that they would oppose the approval of a law that made it possible for Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to take office. The moves represent part of a bid by the Pakistani military to remove Zardari from office in a seemingly constitutional manner, and signal a showdown ahead in Islamabad while the state is struggling to fight a jihadist insurgency.