ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: Security agencies have detained a number of people for interrogation in a foiled bid to fire rockets in the vicinity of the parliament, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday.

The police defused two rockets attached to mobile phones near parliament house in the capital Islamabad on Thursday, the morning after a blast in a park close to President Pervez Musharraf’s residence in nearby Rawalpindi.

“We have lot of people being interrogated and the process is ongoing,” Aziz told Reuters.

He said it would be premature to say who was behind the attempt and who was their target.

“It is premature...these are very events which need to be thoroughly investigated before we give any tangibles.”

A senior government official, however, said the rockets were not target-specific. “The devices were inaccurate and crude and they could be fired remotely as well as physically,” he added.

On Wednesday night, an explosive device exploded in a park near Musharraf’s army residence in Rawalpindi.

The military said the blast in the Rawalpindi park was unrelated to Musharraf or his military residence, Army House.—Reuters