Nappy scare makes Musharraf son miss flight in US airport

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s son Bilal was stopped and made to miss his flight at San Francisco airport after his child’s nappy bag was found to contain traces of explosive material TNT, a report said on Wednesday.

Bilal, who arrived in New Delhi along with his grandmother and uncle on Wednesday, was made to miss the United Airlines flight to Frankfurt along with his wife and son at San Francisco last week after an X-ray scan detected some traces of TNT on the bag, which set off an alarm among security personnel at the airport, Pakistan daily Dawn reported.

Bilal, his wife and son Hamza were made to stand aside and the bag was then put through the X-ray machine half a dozen times. Since repeated tests took time, Bilal and his family missed their flight. Eventually, they were cleared by security. —PTI