SHINGTON, D.C. — Largely considered untested when elected, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has been engulfed by crisis since he took office a few months ago. A Gallup Poll of Pakistan in October, before the latest crisis with India, revealed the new leader had failed, as of that point, to earn more support than his predecessor: Zardari’s 19% job approval rating was on par with the 17% approval that Pakistanis gave an unpopular President Pervez Musharraf in June. Read the full story

