The Rawalpindi cantonment where the headquarters of the Army and othersensitive units of the Pakistan Army and the ISI are located, and the adjoiningIslamabad, the capital, where the headquarters of the federal Government and theNational Assembly are located, had seen terrorist strikes even in thepast. Amongst them, one could mention the 1989 explosion in the Rawalpindioffice of Dr. Farooq Haider, the then President of one of the factions of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), which was attributed to a rivalfaction led by Amanullah Khan; the explosion outside the Egyptian Embassy atIslamabad in the 1990s, which was attributed to some Egyptian opponents of President Hosni Mubarak; the grenade attack inside an Islamabad churchfrequented by the diplomatic community in March 2002 in which the wife of a USdiplomat and their daughter were killed; the unsolved assassination ofMaulana Azam Tariq, the Amir of the Sipah-eSahaba, Pakistan, the political wingof the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, at Islamabad in 2003, the terrorist attackon a a group of workers of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of Benazir Bhuttoin Islamabad earlier this year, the alleged firing of a rocket on Musharraf'splane from the terrace of a house in Islamabad again earlier this year and thealleged firing of rockets by unidentified elements from a park in Islamabad lastyear.