President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that Pakistan was investigating a "definite possibility" that al Qaeda ordered or carried out two attempts to assassinate him last month. Musharraf survived two attempts on his life in the space of two weeks last month. The second, on December 25, killed 15 people and wounded 45. "We have unearthed a lot. We have in fact netted all the people directly involved in the action but we are trying to see who was behind them, the real links, as they say," Musharraf told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
| Does that mean Perv's going to jug Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar? Didn't think so. |
"We think that yes, there is a definite possibility of some al Qaeda in the rear," he added. "We are now trying to see the linkage with our (Pakistani) extremist organisations, we need to establish that still."
| I guess they're only visible from the outside, huh? |
The president told politicians and business leaders that fighting sectarian and religious extremism in Pakistan was, alongside economic development, the toughest challenge he faced.
| There's no difference between sectarian and religious extremism. And if you killed them, your economic development would come along much more politely. |
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