Aseefa, 31, has been involved in politics for some time but has been kept out of legislative politics by her father Zardari, who is also the co-chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), until an appropriate moment.

As he starts his second term in office, the country faces a battered economic and political system with a greater need for reconciliation than any time before, and Zardari's innate ability to bring people with clashing ideas to the table would be put to the test.

A scion of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the husband of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Zardari, aged 68, is expected to succeed Dr. Arif Alvi. 

"If the situation remains unchanged, the country will see the PML-N's prime minister and the PPP's president," The News International reported on Wednesday, quoting sources amid talks of a quid pro quo arrangement between the PML-N and PPP.