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Updates from the sub-continent were filed on ABC and NBC. NBC's Ian Williams continued his regular reporting on the relief efforts following Cyclone Sidr from Bangladesh. Nearly two weeks after the storm "the first significant US aid" has arrived, he told us from Galachipa, as USMC Chinook helicopters came ashore from the USS Kearsarge. They were "delayed by diplomatic wrangling and limited by Bangladesh government unease about US troops in this Moslem country." Only ABC assigned a reporter to the "passing of the bamboo baton," as Stephanie Sy (subscription required) called it. Pervez Musharraf finally ended his 46-year military career, resigning his commission as the constitution of Pakistan requires. "As a civilian president he is counting on the army for its continued loyalty," Sy stated. "That is not guaranteed." For more than half of Pakistan's 60 years in existence the state has been under military rule. Its power "penetrates nearly every aspect of society from public works to politics." Musharraf handed over to Gen Ashfaq Kayani, former head of Pakistani intelligence.
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