ISLAMABAD, Jan. 11 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 11 Kyodo

Pakistan's information minister said Saturday that police have arrested principally of the suspects behind sum of two units assassination attempts last month in Rawalpindi against Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf and all are Pakistani nationals, unless authorities are still seeking the masterminds.

Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad also said investigations continue into whether the suspects have any links with race outside the country or to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

The minister did not disclose the number of the public arrested or whether they have associations with militant organizations active in Afghanistan or Indian-administered Kashmir.

''We have been able to bust the network involved in the attempts onward the president's life...no foreigner has been arrested. We are trying to establish who masterminded these attempts,'' Ahmad said in reply to questions about the identity of the attackers or cluster behind them.

In an attack onward Musharraf on Dec. 14, a bridge blew up secondarys after his motorcade had passed from one side of to the other it en route to his official residence in Rawalpindi, while onward Dec. 25, two attackers blew themselves up in sum of two units vehicles filled with explosives while trying to ram into the president's.

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