The ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been shot and has sustained wounds in this leg. The attack occurred during a protest in the city of Wazirabad, in the east of the country.
One of his senior aides has told the news agency AFP that the shooter intended to kill him but has yet to confirm this.
The members of his party, PTI, have said that four others were also hurt in the shootings.
One of his supporters reportedly lost his life in the firing.
Imran Khan, 70, was leading a protest march in the city of Wazirabad to Islamabad as a call for elections after he was sacked from office last April.
He was travelling with a large convoy of trucks and cars, heading to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, from Wazirabad in the eastern province of Punjab.
He was rushed to a hospital in the nearby city of Lahore, and the party spokesperson has said that the bullet hit his shin.
The provincial health minister, a member of the PTI party, Yasmeen Rasheed, has said that Khan is currently in a stable condition.
According to Geo TV, a Pakistani channel, a male suspect had already been arrested by the police.
Videos showing the former Prime Minister in a conscious state, lying down in a structure, bandaged, and being carried into a vehicle a short while after the shooting, have emerged.
Another video emerged showing one of the supporters of Khan’s party, the PTI, with a bandage on his face and blood stains on his clothes, saying that the public should pray for Imran Khan and all those who sustained injuries during the shooting.
The incumbent Pakistani Prime Minister has condemned the shootings and said that he has given orders for an imminent investigation to be held on the matter.
Imran Khan was planning to hold rallies across the country calling for new elections; this rally was the second of this nature to happen in the country in the last seven days.
To which the government has responded that they intend to hold elections in the coming year, as they have planned before.
Imran Khan was disqualified from holding public office last month, which the former cricket sensation described as “politically motivated.”
He was ousted from the office as a result of a non-confidence movement in the Pakistani Parliament in April of this year. Khan said that he was ousted by the US and its allies to have a pro-US man in office.
