Gunners fired shots after an aircraft carrying President Gen. Pervez Musharraf took off from a military base Friday, officials and witnesses said, in an apparent assassination attempt that has added to the sense of crisis enveloping Pakistan... It was unclear if the incident was linked to an army siege of a radical mosque in the capital. However, it underlines concerns about the threat posed by Islamic militants to Pakistan's stability and role as a key U.S. ally... Compounding the gloom, police said a suicide attacker pedaled a bicycle bomb into a military convoy in the northwest, killing four soldiers...Read this story in full at IHT.com
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