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| Pakistani police have sealed off a house in the city of Rawalpindi amid reports of an attempt to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf's plane. | Pakistani police have sealed off a house in the city of Rawalpindi amid reports of an attempt to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf's plane. |
| Reports say the house was under the flight path of Gen Musharraf's plane. | Reports say the house was under the flight path of Gen Musharraf's plane. |
| A photographer for the Reuters news agency said there were two large guns mounted on the roof of the house. | A photographer for the Reuters news agency said there were two large guns mounted on the roof of the house. |
| A military spokesman denied any firing had taken place. Gen Musharraf's travel plans are highly secret. He has survived two assassination attempts. | A military spokesman denied any firing had taken place. Gen Musharraf's travel plans are highly secret. He has survived two assassination attempts. |
| In addition, the authorities say they have foiled at least three other conspiracies to kill him. | |
| 'Sound of gunfire' | |
| The president was flying from the Chaklala air base in Rawalpindi, a garrison town close to the capital, Islamabad, to see flood damage in Balochistan province. | The president was flying from the Chaklala air base in Rawalpindi, a garrison town close to the capital, Islamabad, to see flood damage in Balochistan province. |
| He arrived safely, officials say. | He arrived safely, officials say. |
| People living near the house in Rawalpindi say they heard shots being fired. | People living near the house in Rawalpindi say they heard shots being fired. |
| "We heard the sound of gunfire," Mohammed Ishraq told the BBC's Urdu service. "When we arrived here we heard that it was some sort of terrorism." | |
| Another man, Ishaq Ahmed, said: "Everyone heard a firing sound. The firing sound was like a bomb blast. It was that kind of sound." | |
| But officials flatly reject there was any attempt on Gen Musharraf's life. | |
| "There was no firing at the president's plane. He is in Turbat [in Balochistan]," an army spokesman said. | "There was no firing at the president's plane. He is in Turbat [in Balochistan]," an army spokesman said. |
| The incident comes amid anger among many in Pakistan at Gen Musharraf's decision to take on Islamic radicals at the Red Mosque in Islamabad. | |
| The confrontation there has so far resulted in 19 deaths. | |
| Suicide attack | |
| Meanwhile, at least four soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), local officials say. | |
| The incident took place in the town of Chakdara, some 200 kilometres north of the NWFP capital, Peshawar. | |
| Reports say the attacker threw himself at an army jeep. |