KARACHI, July 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Two Pakistani men and a security official were remanded in custody on Wednesday, July 10, for allegedly plotting to blow up President General Pervez Musharraf, police said.

Mohammad Imran Bhai and Mohammad Hanif Ayub, and Rangers paramilitary inspector Waseem Akhtar, are accused of trying to assassinate Musharraf on April 26, by blowing up the car he was traveling in.

They were remanded in custody by an anti-terrorism court, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

The three suspects were brought to court in an armored personnel carrier. Akhtar’s face was covered with a blanket.

The plot failed because a remote control device failed to detonate an explosives-laden Suzuki pick-up truck parked along the route Musharraf was taking during a visit to this port city.

Police have said the same vehicle was later used in the bomb attack outside the U.S. consulate here on June 14, in which 12 Pakistanis were killed.

Judge Shabbir Ahmed allowed police to hold the suspects until July 20 for further interrogation, AFP said.

Police on Tuesday, July 9, registered a case against a total of eight people for the plot on Musharraf’s life. Five of them are still at large.

Bhai and Ayub are also accused of involvement in the consulate attack, while Ayub is alleged to have carried out reconnaissance surveys for the May 8 bomb attack on a bus of French naval engineers, in which 11 of the French engineers and three Pakistanis were killed.

Bhai and Ayub, along with a third man from their group Harkatul Mujahedin Al-Alaami, had been remanded in custody on Monday, July 8, over the consulate blast.