| An al-Qaida-linked militant sought by Pakistan for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl played a key role in two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, senior security officials said Friday. A manhunt is under way for Amjad Hussain Farooqi, who has been missing since Pearl was abducted in Karachi in January 2002 while going to what he believed was an interview with a militant leader. On Friday, senior Pakistani security officials said that Farooqi played a central role in two failed attempts in December to blow up Musharraf's motorcade. Revelations about Farooqi came after Musharraf told private Geo TV in an interview broadcast Thursday that a Pakistani mastermind of the attacks against him remained at large. Musharraf did not identify him. |