PRO: The day he was sworn in, Benazir Bhutto's successor as head of the Pakistan Peoples Party called for the release of imprisoned judges "” most notably, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, whom President Musharraf jailed. Their release will almost certainly hasten Musharraf's abdication of the presidency.

CON: Jailed for four years in the '90s on charges that he abused his authority while serving as Bhutto's premier. And it remains to be seen whether feuds with the PPP's governing partner, the Pakistan Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif, will be a distraction during already unstable times.

PRO: He nearly routed the Pakistani Army from the country's embattled northwest frontier province, establishing himself as an icon of global jihad "” not unlike his idol, fellow Pashtun Mullah Omar.