Abdul Rashid Ghazi said on Saturday he had received a call from an unidentified man who said he tried to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf’s plane in revenge for the crackdown, AFP reported. “I received a telephone call from a man I did not know,” Ghazi told AFP by telephone. “He said, ‘I fired at Musharraf’s plane just a while ago’. He said that Musharraf survived,” said Ghazi. Ghazi said the man asked him to tell the media about the incident, and that he replied, “I am inside, it’s better if you tell them yourself.” Azaz Syed adds: Punjab police’s Elite Force on Saturday morning picked up two persons from G-11/2 for their alleged link with unidentified militants who fired at the president’s plane in Rawalpindi on Friday.
Sources told Daily Times that the two men – Abdul Waseh, 16, and Nadeem, 30 – were captured from a house in G-11/2. Some phone calls were made there from a telephone at the Asghar Mall house from where the president’s plane was targeted by a sub machinegun. The sources said that the investigators had not found any significant clue about the identity of the attackers, adding that intelligence agencies were looking for a “mole” who may have leaked the take-off plan of the president’s aircraft to the attackers.