Shots fired at Pakistani PM's motorcade

ISLAMABAD-Shots were fired at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's motorcade near Islamabad's airport on Wednesday but officials and police said he was not in it at the time.The attack is bound to compound the fears of investors and allies, who have been worrying about chronic political instability and Islamist militant violence in the nuclear-armed country. Senior police official Rao Mohammad Iqbal said the motorcade was on its way to the airport to pick Gilani up at the time of the attack."The car was going towards the airport when it was fired upon from a small hill ... two bullets hit the driver's window," Iqbal said.Earlier, the prime minister's spokesman, Zahid Bashir, said shots were fired at Gilani's motorcade but he was not hurt."Multiple shots were fired at the prime minister's motorcade. The prime minister is safe, by the grace of God," Bashir said.The prime minister's office said multiple sniper shots had been fired and television pictures showed two bullet marks a couple of inches apart on the cracked bullet-proof window.Gilani is a senior member of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party. She was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack on December 27 while campaigning for a general election.
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