Karachi: Two Islamic militants confessed before a magistrate on July 17 to being part of an attempt to kill Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in April in this Southern port city, police said.

Mohammad Imran Bhai and Mohammad Hanif Ayub told the court that the plan was to blow up an explosive-laden vehicle along the road used by Musharraf, police officer Manzoor Mughal said.

"A Suzuki pick-up was purchased and was parked with 500 kilograms of explosives in it on Sharae Faisal, near the airport from where Musharraf's motorcade was due to pass," Mughal quoted Bhai as telling the court.

One of their accomplices called Kamran "was given the mission to blow up the vehicle with a remote controlled device but it did not work".

Bhai and Ayub said the man who provided the information about Musharraf's movements on April 26 was a paramilitary Rangers inspector, Waseem Akhtar.

Akhtar was picked up by the Rangers with Bhai and Ayub last week but he has not been produced before a court to record a statement.

A statement recorded under Pakistan's Criminal Procedure Code can be used against the accused in subsequent trial.

Bhai and Ayub confessed before a magistrate on July 16 to having plotted a bombing outside the US consulate in volatile Karachi in June. 12 Pakistanis were killed in that attack.

The two belonged to a group called Harkatul Mujahedeen-al-Alaami, an offshoot of banned Kashmiri militant outfit Harkatul Mujahedeen, Rangers chief Major General Saluddin Satti said.