They were asked to name a leader that could best handle Pakistan's problems, and 32 percent went for Pakistan People's Party Vice Chairman Makhdom Amin Fahim, and 14 percent chose Bhutto's son, Bilawal, who is the official party leader.
Pakistan's problems are complicated by its testing of atomic weapons in May, two weeks after India conducted similar explosions.
It would be easy to blame Pakistan's problems on East Asia's financial troubles.
Pakistan's problems, of course, are not in the same league, but the axing of Javed Miandad as coach on Wednesday spotlights the panic presently gripping the cricket board.
However, Ahsan Iqbal, spokesman for the PML-N party, stopped short of calling it a coalition, saying only that leader Nawaz Sharif had met with PPP officials and pledged to work with other political groups to form a government to address Pakistan's problems.
It is an attempt to tackle one of Pakistan's worst problems: the huge number of children who receive no education at all.
He suggests that might be because of Pakistan's security problems.
Ali Kachelo in Pakistan's Sindh province knows similar problems.
But it's worth noting that many delegates from Pakistan's tribal belt, Waziristan, which is the epicenter of some of the problems in that conflict, have also boycotted this event.
Frequent injury problems and accusations of playing to the gallery had overshadowed the Pakistan paceman's success in taking 144 wickets in 36 Tests.
That may be because foreign policy is often about more immediate problems (Britain's William Hague has devoted much effort to securing a preferential trade deal for Pakistan to help it recover from its floods).
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