Islamabad: July 06, 2007 (Friday) – Hardliners connected with crackdown on the radical Lal Masjid are doubted to have fired at the plane of President Pervez Musharraf while his plane was in air.  The rocket and anti-aircraft guns were fired from a Rawalpindi house close to the runaway of the military airbase used by the airbase used by Pakistan President. The military spokesman said, "The President is safe, he is now in Turbat," 

The media reports coming in have confirmed that Musharraf is safe and secure and that he has landed at Turbat in Baluchistan, where the President visited flood victims.

Besides firing from the anti-aircraft guns, there was also firing from light machine guns around the same time, the channel said.

Twentyfive rounds of 14.5 mm bullets were fired. Police recovered 150 rounds more from the roof top of the house.

Heavy contingents of police cordoned off the house at the Asghar Mall road in Rawalpindi where two anti aircraft guns were found fitted on the roof, Dawn News TV said.

It is not clear whether the rocket or the aircraft guns were actually fired at Musharraf`s plane or fired presuming to be President’s plane.

The attack, fourth bid on Musharraf’s life, comes at a time when he is engaged in a stand-off with Jamia Hafza seminary clerics at the Lal Masjid.

The house was rented by a couple only yesterday. It is located close to the runway of the military airbase at Chaklala near Rawalpindi used by Musharraf, the TV channel said. The occupants of the house, owned by local resident Muhammad Asfar, reportedly escaped after firing the shots.