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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 27 - Issue 10 :: May. 08-21, 2010 INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE from the publishers of THE HINDU • Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Act of Transition ANITA JOSHUA in Islamabad A YEAR and a half after he negotiated his way into Aiwan-e-Sadar (the President’s House) from Zardari House as the “custodian” of the Bhutto legacy, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has made his own place in the nation’s tumultuous political history – courtesy the 18th Amendment, which restores parliamentary democracy and the federal structure envisaged by the 1973 Constitution. A Pakistan President surrendering power caught the imagination of the domestic and international media as well as the public to such an extent that the Constitutional Reforms package – which has suggested close to 100 amendments as part of a mega exercise to overhaul the country’s structure