Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
, effectively blocking his nomination as the country's next prime minister.
Zardari wanted Makhdoom Shahabuddin, a former health minister from Punjab province, to replace Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ...
, who was dismissed as prime minister by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
But hours after Shahabuddin's nomination, the military-run Anti-Narcotics Force prompted a magistrate's court to order his arrest on charges relating to the illegal production of a controlled drug two years ago.
The court also issued an arrest warrant for Ali Musa Gilani, a son of the outgoing prime minister, in the same case.