A grim-faced Pervez Musharraf took leave from his fellow generals today, a day before quitting as army chief in a move that could ease Pakistan's political crisis.

A top US envoy delivered a blunt message to Pakistan’s military leader, telling him that emergency rule must be lifted and his opponents freed before elections.

AT least three of the men arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a series of transatlantic flights were converts to Islam, it emerged yesterday.