Two rockets found near Musharraf's home

Pakistani bomb disposal experts have found and defused two rockets pointing towards President Pervez Musharraf's official residence in Islamabad, hours after a blast near his army home.

The rockets were fixed to launchers hidden in bushes at a building site about a kilometre from the Presidency building in the capital, security officials told AFP.

A mobile phone was attached by wires to both launchers, apparently for use as a remote launching device.

Officials said the site was also near to parliamentarians' lodgings in the capital.

"They were apparently pointing towards the presidency," one security official said on condition of anonymity.

"Luckily some labourers working at a construction site saw the rockets and reported it to police."

Police cordoned off the area in the city centre where the rockets were found and security forces detained 80 people working at the building site for questioning, officials said.

The discovery came just hours after an explosion in a park near military ruler General Musharraf's army residence in the garrison city of Rawalpindi late Wednesday.

- AFP