NEW YORK, Jan 9: An alleged conspirator in a plot to kill President Pervez Musharraf has escaped, Time Magazine reported on its website on Sunday. The suspect escaped sometime around New Year's Day from state security in Karachi, the US magazine reported.

A nation wide manhunt has failed to yield any leads in the whereabouts of the suspect, who has been identified as Mushtaq Ahmad, one of the ringleaders in the Dec 14 plot on Musharraf's life.

Authorities reportedly have sent security alerts to air and seaports and have beefed up security at Pakistan's land borders to prevent Ahmad from fleeing the country.

A military court last month sentenced a Pakistani soldier to death for his involvement in the plot on the president's life. -AFP