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Local, Foreign Network Targeted Musharraf-Minister

A Pakistani minister said on Saturday local and foreign extremists had planned a recent assassination bid on President Pervez Musharraf — the second in a fortnight — and they would soon be arrested. “We have made big headway in our investigations,” Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, information minister, told Reuters. “The terror network comprises both foreign and local (extremists)…They will be arrested soon,” he added, declining to elaborate. Two suicide car bombers tried to ram explosives-laden vehicles into Musharraf’s limousine on Thursday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, 20 km (12 miles) from the capital Islamabad. Full Story