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Pakistan's new National Assembly was sworn in to office Monday. It's the first session since opposition parties won last month's parliamentary elections in a landslide over allies of President Pervez Musharraf.

The party that will lead Pakistan's new government will announce its nominee for prime minister later on Saturday. Whoever is named will be confirmed by a vote in the National Assembly scheduled for Monday.

In the wake of last week's parliamentary election in which his party was soundly defeated, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf faces growing pressure to resign. That pressure is also touching Washington, which has hoped to keep Musharraf in place as a key ally in the war on terrorism.

Pakistanis headed to the polls on Monday for much-anticipated parliamentary elections that were delayed after the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in December. But fears of violence may have kept some from voting.

Social activists say as many as 15,000 women in the northern state of Punjab alone are the victims of a growing racket in which Indian men based overseas arrange marriages back home for the purpose of extorting wealth from their brides' families.

Thousands turned out to pay respects to Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who was buried in a family mausoleum near Karachi. New information has come to light about the final moments before her motorcade was attacked Thursday. Her assassination set off riots, but the violence seems to be subsiding.

Elections in Pakistan have been postponed for six weeks. The country's election commission announced Wednesday that they'll be on Feb. 18. President Pervez Musharraf defended the decision in a nationwide television address and announced that experts from Britain's Scotland Yard will help investigate Benazir Bhutto's assassination.

The assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has changed the political landscape in Pakistan, undermining the strength of the opposition. Upcoming parliamentary elections may be losing their significance.

In the Indian state of Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government are up for re-election. Modi is the face of hardline Hindu nationalism. His administration is believed to have instigated some of the worst communal violence in India since the 1947 partition — the killing of 2,000 Muslims in 2002.

Speed is not the strong point of India's Ambassador automobile. Nor is style. But it still seems like the right fit for the crowded streets of New Delhi, a city of 14 million people and a growing number of foreign imports.