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On 3 November 2022, while Khan was giving a speech in Wazirabad, Punjab, to his supporters, shots were fired by a gunman at Khan's container-mounted-truck. According to an aide of Khan, the truck was fired at six times. [14] A Khan supporter by the name of Ibtisam [15] tried to tackle the gunman. [16]
- What Happened?
- Where Did It Happen?
- Why Did It Happen?
- What’s The Wider context?
- What Happened to The Attacker?
- What Is The Latest on The Ground?
- What Were The Reactions?
Khan was shot in his right shin on Thursday, at 4:21pm local time (11:21 GMT), when his anti-government protest convoy came under attack. His life was not in danger.A total of 14 people were injured, doctors said. One of Khan’s supporters died after sustaining bullet wounds.“This is not only an assassination attempt on Imran Khan but an attack on Pakistan itself,” aide Fawad Chaudhry said on Twitter.Khan was taken to a hospital in Lahore after the attack. A doctor said there were bullet fragments in his leg and his tibia bone was chipped.The attack took place in Wazirabad, nearly 200km (124 miles) from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.For the past week, Khan has been leading a protest march to Islamabad to demand snap elections.The identity of the gunman, who was arrested by police, was not immediately made clear. No group has claimed responsibility.TV channels showed a man they said was a suspected shooter who looked to be in his twenties or thirties. He said he wanted to kill Khan and had acted alone.“He [Khan] was misleading the people, and I couldn’t bear it,” the suspect said in the video. The information minister confirmed the footage was recorded by police.Khan’s government was removed in April this year through a parliamentary vote of no confidence. Since then, Khan has been holding rallies across the country, demanding early elections.The parliamentary move put him among a long list of elected Pakistani prime ministers who failed to see their full terms – none has done so since independence in 1947.In response, Khan began his “Long March” on October 28 from Lahore. The march was expected to reach Islamabad on November 11.According to analysts, Khan’s shooting underscored growing political instability in Pakistan, with the government and the former leader refusing to back down from their positions.Information Minister Murriyam Aurangzeb said police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene.An interrogation was underway, he added.Police also cordoned off the scene to carry out forensic work.Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said “considerable anger” was mounting in the streets in the aftermath of Imran Khan’s shooting.“We are getting preliminary reports of protesters blocking roads, burning tyres, and this could escalate into something big,” he added.Arifa Noor, a political analyst in Pakistan, expressed surprise at the attack.“Nobody expected it to be like this, to have gunshots fired at a former prime minister, considering, just back in 2007, we lost a very popular leader through this kind of violence,” Noor told Al Ja...Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issued a statement condemning the incident and asked authorities to immediately launch an investigation.
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