Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, 70, was shot in the foot during the protest march he is leading to demand elections. “This was an attempt to kill him, to kill him,” an aide, Raoof Hasan, told AFP.
According to the same source, Imran Khan’s condition will be stable.
Khan is leading a “long protest march” that began Friday in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province, and is heading to Islamabad to demand elections. Every day, the former prime minister climbs into a truck container and addresses the crowd that follows him.
The attack reportedly took place in Wazirabad district of Punjab province.
According to Pakistani authorities, quoted by the AP, the former prime minister was injured when a gunman fired at a truck he was riding in, injuring Khan and some of his supporters.
There are videos of the alleged shooting on social media.
According to AFP’s adviser, the man suspected of being the shooter has been killed and a second suspect has been apprehended. It is unclear who shot the first person.
Khan, a former cricketer turned politician, was ousted as head of government in April in a vote of no confidence after some of his coalition partners defected. But it remains popular.
Khan claims he was the target of a conspiracy hatched by his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and the US. Something that both the current head of government and Washington deny.
Source: DN
