Pakistan News and Discussion-8

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<b>PAF officers tried to kill Musharraf: UK paper</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LONDON: Several young officers from the Pakistan Air Force with access to President Pervez Gen Pervez Musharraf’s innermost security circle were among 50 people arrested for trying to assassinate him soon after he returned from a visit to the US and Britain in late September, according to a report published in The Sunday Telegrph on Sunday.

The rocket strike was aimed at the president’s high-security personal residence-office in Rawalpindi. “About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone,” Pakistani intelligence sources were quoted as saying by The Sunday Telegraph.

“Alarmingly, many are understood to be young officers serving in the Pakistan Air Force, some of whom have access to high-security zones of the presidential offices, parliament and the intelligence service,” they said.
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It was allegedly run by Liaquat Hussain, a fugitive cleric who was a purported associate of Ayman Al Zawahiri. Residents and local religious parties claimed the victims were either “innocent Islamic students or teachers”. They allege the strike was carried out at the direction of the US military.

<b>Maulana Faqir Muhammad, a pro-Taliban militant commander, described Musharraf as an “American agent” who was “killing innocent people at the US behest”. Another cleric, Maulana Inayatur Rehman, said that he had prepared a “squad of suicide bombers” to target Pakistani security forces. Agencies</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They are suspect.
Paki newspaper is pretty silent on yesterday's attack.