Musharraf daughter to enrol in Indian Art of Living course

Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's daughter Alia will enrol in Indian spiritual guru Shri Shri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living (AOL) basic course in Pakistan.

Mother of two, Alia is an architect who lives in Islamabad and is working towards reviving Pakistan's traditional music.

She showed keen interest in Shankar's Sudarshan Kriya - the technique of controlled breathing for mental and physical well-being - after the religious leader's recent visit to Pakistan.

Pakistan's AOL chief Naeem Zamindar, who recently quit his job in Intel USA to take up teaching Sudarshan Kriya full time said that "General Musharraf's daughter is enrolling for our next basic course. And we hope that through his daughter, Musharraf will learn of the course's benefits and take up the course himself. Two ministers of his cabinet have also taken up the course."

As part of his 'Love Moves the World' global tour, which had taken him through 80 different cities, Ravi Shankar had visited Karachi and Islamabad for four days, starting on July 19 where he held informal talks with religious heads and social activists.

He also then set up an Art of Living centre at Karachi which already boasts of a thousand students.

Naeem currently is leading a group of 15 Pakistanis who have come to stay in AOL's international ashram in Bangalore.

Meanwhile the ashram is also playing host to four Iraqis, including two women, who have come to attend the advanced training programmes of AOL, which had recently sent a team to help people in the war-ravaged country.