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Six held for attack on Musharraf
January 04, 2004 16:28 IST
Pakistani security agencies have arrested six people in connection with the December 25 assassination bid on President Pervez Musharraf.
They were arrested from a mosque in Lahore, the Daily Times newspaper quoted sources as saying on Sunday.
Four of them belonged to the Jaish-e-Mohammed, or its alias Khudam-ul-Islam or the radical Sunni outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba, which has renamed itself Milat-e-Islamia. The other two had links with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the report added.
Musharraf escaped unhurt when two vans entered his convoy and exploded outside a petrol pump in Rawalpindi on December 25.
The attack occurred not far from the spot where terrorists detonated a bomb on December 14 to assassinate him.