Overseas Pakistani Friends

Who is gambling on this saga ending as Casablanca did, with Rick feeling that he has done the right thing for a greater good, joining Renault who has sacrificed his security for the same greater good, walking into the sunset together to fight for a better world

If we cannot — with any modicum of competence, grace, and wisdom — even handle a transition, what might we have witnessed had we followed a more uncertain, belligerent path

Eating eggs may help overweight adults lose weight and feel more energetic, according to US researchers.

Their two-month study of overweight or obese adults, ages 25 to 60, found that those who ate two eggs for breakfast as part of a calorie-reduced diet lost 65 percent more weight, had a 61 percent greater reduction in body mass index, and had higher energy levels than those who ate bagels for breakfast.

By Hamid Mir

ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf told visiting friends on Tuesday that PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari would never restore deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry because if he was restored he would not spare Zardari.

Shafqat Ali

ISLAMABAD: Following the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, the rupee has started recovering against the US dollar.

In Tuesday’s trade, rupee ended at 73.20 against the dollar, a recovery of more than 2 percent. The dollar was also sold at Rs 73.30-40 in the market.

By Jason Burke

THE political demise of the president of Pakistan will have repercussions well beyond the humid corridors of Islamabad.

Last week, violence flared up throughout Pakistan: suicide bombers struck in the east, hundreds died as the army launched new offensives against radical Muslim militants, 100 or so miles to the west, there were riots across the border in Indian Kashmir and bombs, and the customary rockets and battles in Afghanistan.

By Shahid Javed Burki

 GEN Pervez Musharraf has left the presidential office under pressure from the leaders of the two political parties that won impressively in the elections of Feb 18 but have performed poorly in office.They have allowed the economy to slide on a very slippery slope. On Aug 13, a day before Pakistan’s 61st birthday, the rupee declined by 2.5 per cent against the dollar, the sharpest fall ever since the value of the currency was allowed to be fixed by the markets.

By Zaffar Abbas

At a time when almost everyone in the country, including many of General Musharraf’s one-time trusted friends and beneficiaries, is busy condemning his nine-year rule, to mention some of his achievements may be like committing blasphemy. Still, it’s only fair to talk of some of the big, controversial and even bold decisions he took in an attempt to change the destiny of the country. Whether he succeeded in doing so, or became a victim of sycophancy or self-serving propaganda, may remain part of a never-ending debate. But this in itself shows that General Musharraf’s may well be a mixed legacy.

By Anwar Iqbal

WASHINGTON, Aug 18: The coalition government used Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s visit to Washington last month for convincing US President George W. Bush to stop supporting his old ally, Pervez Musharraf.

The PPP thinks it has scored a victory. It will realise soon enough that the PMLN has used its shoulder to fire the shot that has taken out Mr Musharraf. The coming days will see conflict on the nomination of the candidate for the job Mr Musharraf has just vacated

The real credit for causing Musharraf’s fall goes to civil society and the media, both new actors on Pakistan’s social and political scene. In all new democracies, where the transition from military to civilian rule has taken place, these two actors have proved catalysts of political change

LAHORE: General (r) Pervez Musharraf resigned from the office of president on Monday to avoid looming impeachment.

He was born on August 11, 1943, in Neharwali Haveli in Delhi. Musharraf’s father Syed Musharrafuddin served in the Foreign Services of Pakistan and retired as the Foreign Affairs secretary.

ISLAMABAD: The following are key quotes from a televised address to the nation by General (r) Pervez Musharraf on Monday in which he announced his resignation.

It’s always America that has the last word in our internal and foreign affairs. It will support a dictator as long as he works in American interests. But when he loses his value and become a liability, he has to be eliminated and made an example. On August 18, 1988, we witnessed the crash of Ziaul Haq on PTV. Exactly 20 years later, one more dictator has fallen. Yesterday we witnessed Musharraf’s crash courtesy PTV once more. Some things in Pakistan will never change.

People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study shows middle-aged members of a runner’s club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, researchers at Stanford University in California found.

People with diabetes may want to start spicing up their diets, if new lab research findings prove true in humans.

In test-tube experiments, researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, found that extracts of various herbs and spices — such as cinnamon, cloves, sage and rosemary — inhibited a damaging process that can result from high blood sugar levels.

As your pregnancy progresses, sleeping may become a little more uncomfortable each month.

The American Pregnancy Association offers these suggestions to help you sleep more comfortably during pregnancy:

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf will address the nation today at 1pm in which he is expected to resign, according to reports.

Some sources confirmed to Geo News that president could announce his resignation in today’s address to the nation. “President Musharraf has made up his mind to resign before the impeachment motion is tabled in the assembly,“ sources confirmed.

We have democratic Constitutions run by undemocratic parties. The party’s “supreme” leader awards party tickets and legislators are his bondsmen. The result is political stagnation

In Africa, you are far, far more likely to get bitten by a mosquito that will give you malaria than you are in Pakistan or India. Diamond argues from there — and I see no reason to doubt him — that the scourge of malaria has been one of many factors in Africa’s failure to develop at the same rate as South Asia

What are we looking at then is a national orgy of recrimination, revenge and retribution that will make the Iranian revolution look like a walk in the park. Fortunately for Pakistan nothing of the sort is likely to happen. It is obvious that President Musharraf will leave shortly

Pakistan is a country where a lot of sacrifice has been made. It is important that a mockery not be made of the thousands of martyrs who gave their blood for a homeland for the Muslims of the Subcontinent