ISLAMABAD, July 6 (Reuters) - The Pakistan military denied television reports that President Pervez Musharraf's plane was fired on as it took off on Friday from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, the garrison city next to the capital, Islamabad.

Musharraf's plane arrived safely in the southwestern town of Turbat, where the president visited flood victims.

"There was no firing at the president's plane. He is in Turbat," an army spokesman said, contradicting reports by several independent news channels. Musharraf has survived two assassination attempts by al Qaeda-linked militants in December 2003.

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