Gunfire rang out as a plane carrying Pakistan's president left an air base Friday, and police found anti-aircraft guns on a nearby roof. The apparent assassination attempt came as the army besieged extremists at the capital's Red Mosque.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Unknown assailants fired a submachine gun Friday from an urban rooftop at the plane of Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, although security officials said they did not regard the attack as a serious assassination attempt.
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan called for an end to a standoff between police and armed students barricaded in Islamabad's Red Mosque, while an associated religious school was reportedly raided early this morning.
Gunmen fired shots at Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's plane Friday apparently in a crude assassination attempt involving anti-aircraft guns like those used by the Taliban, officials said.
SUMMARY: Pakistan's highest court orders the release on bail of a transman and his wife jailed in May when a judge deemed them lying and un-Islamic.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's plane was fired on after taking off from a military airbase Friday and police recovered two Taliban-style anti-aircraft guns, intelligence officials said.
Gunmen fired on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's plane using an improvised Taliban-style anti-aircraft gun after it took off from a military airbase on Friday, intelligence officials said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's plane was fired on as it took off on Friday from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, an intelligence officer said, contradicting official denials.
By STEPHEN GRAHAM Gunfire rang out as a plane carrying Pakistan's president left an air base Friday, and police found anti-aircraft guns on a nearby roof. The apparent assassination attempt came as the army besieged extremists at the capital's Red Mosque. The incident heightened the sense of crisis in Pakistan, where Islamic militants have long chastened President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for ...
New clashes erupt at the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, where troops are besieging radical Islamists.