By Stephen Graham ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's prime minister-in-waiting has the experience and track record to hold together an unwieldy coalition as it moves to neutralize President Pervez Musharraf, lawmakers and analysts said Sunday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ Pakistan's dominant opposition party on Saturday announced that Yousuf Raza Gilani, a soft-spoken consensus-builder, will be the next prime minister.

Text of report by Pakistani newspaper Daily Times website on 24 February Islamabad: The Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) on Saturday [23 February] indicated that the new government would not seek President Pervez Musharraf's immediate impeachment as Western envoys have urged winning parties to support him.

In our view Few could have imagined what took place this week in Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf's political party not only was beaten in the elections, but it finished last in a three-way race.

By Robert H Reid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A veteran politician with a reputation as a consensus builder emerged Friday as the favorite to become Pakistan's next prime minister under an agreement by the two biggest opposition parties to form a new government together.