Roadside Bomb Narrowly Misses Pakistan’s Musharraf
Pakistani police said a roadside bomb exploded at the Faizabad interchange on Thursday, shortly before former president Musharraf was due to drive by. Nobody was hurt and his convoy was diverted.
It was the fourth presumed attempt on the life of Musharraf who faces a series of legal cases, including treason, since returning from self-imposed exile in March last year.
The first three assassination bids occurred during his term in office from 1999, when he seized office, to 2008 when he was forced to step down as his popularity plummeted.
Senior police official Muhammad Naeem said the four kilogram bomb was planted under a road interchange bridge on Musharraf’s intended route between an army hospital in Rawalpindi to his home Islamabad.