09-03-2008, 04:07 PM
<b>Mudy Ji :</b>
Sorry - he missed!
[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Assassin targets Pakistani PM</span></b>[/center]
<b>ITN - 35 minutes ago
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has been targeted by an assassin who fired shots at his motorcade.</b>
His spokesman Zahid Bashir said: "Multiple shots were fired ... the prime minister is safe."
The attack happened on the main road to the airport in the capital, Islamabad, he said.
Earlier, Mr Gilani had arrived back at the airport from a trip to the eastern city of Lahore.
He is a senior member of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party. She was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack on December 27 last year while campaigning for a general election.
The government said al-Qaeda-linked militants killed her.
Mrs Bhutto's party went on to win the February 18 election and Mr Gilani became prime minister of a coalition government.
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