Rockets Aimed at Parliament Defused
From Times Wire Reports
Two rockets rigged with cellphones and primed to fire toward Pakistan’s parliament were discovered by a construction worker and defused by experts, a security official said.
The security scare in Islamabad, the capital, came hours after a homemade bomb exploded in a park in the neighboring city of Rawalpindi, not far from a residence of President Pervez Musharraf.
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