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Rockets found in Pakistan capital | |
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Security forces in Pakistan say they have found two rockets and a rocket launcher near the parliament building in the capital, Islamabad. | |
Roads leading to the parliament have been cordoned off and bomb experts have begun investigations, reports say. | Roads leading to the parliament have been cordoned off and bomb experts have begun investigations, reports say. |
"We have detained a few people for questioning," an unnamed police official told Reuters news agency. | "We have detained a few people for questioning," an unnamed police official told Reuters news agency. |
Reports said the rockets had been defused by bomb experts, but there was no independent confirmation. | |
The parliament is not in session. | |
One report said that the rocket and the rocket launcher were found in a patch of green across the road from parliament main government buildings. | |
They were recovered a day after a small explosion in a park not far from President Pervez Musharraf's army residence in Rawalpindi. | |
The military has dismissed suggestions that the blast was related to Gen Musharraf. |
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