Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD: A gunman opened fire at a container truck carrying Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday, wounding him slightly and also some ...

ISLAMABAD (AFP): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the foot Thursday (Nov 3) at a political rally but is in a stable condition, ...

50% of our readers find this article useful How useful is this article to you? Khan was wounded when shots were fired from the crowd near the city of Gujranwala, his senior aide, Raoof Hasan, told AFP.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin on Thursday when his anti-government protest convoy came under attack in the east of the ...

This is not for politics or personal gain, or to topple the government... Several others in the convoy were wounded and the information minister said a suspect had been arrested. There was a lot of bleeding," Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesperson for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, told Reuters.

Imran Khan, the cricket great who went on to have a successful political career, was said to have been injured in a shooting on Thursday.

Former Pakistan leader Imran Khan is in stable condition after being shot in the leg at a rally in eastern Punjab province. He is being shifted to a ...

Imran Khan sustained a bullet injury when an unidentified gunman opened fire on the container-mounted-truck carrying him during his protest rally in ...

The generals may choose to exercise a range of options from martial law to an outright takeover. Dubbing the rally as one of the “biggest freedom movements” in Pakistan, Khan had said that he was marching to press the government to announce elections immediately. Geo TV reported that one person has been arrested from the spot and the police shifted him to an unknown location. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said on its official Twitter handle that he was “stable”. He has been shifted to a hospital and is out of danger, the channel said. The long march commenced on October 28 from Lahore and is expected to reach the capital city, Islamabad, on November 4, covering nearly 380 km over a week’s time.

Imran Khan, who claims he was ousted in a conspiracy involving the United States, suffered an injury when a gunman opened fire on his convoy in Punjab ...

Khan has been at loggerheads with the country's powerful military and has refused to back down from his plans to march on the capital. It was not immediately known if Khan's convoy would proceed on to Islamabad. Khan was later seen with a bandage on his right leg, just above the foot, according to reports and a blurry image. Since his ouster in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April, Khan has mobilized mass rallies across the country, where he has whipped up crowds with claims that he was a victim of a conspiracy by his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and the United States. A bullet hit him in the leg," Asad Umar, an official from Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, told reporters. The convoy is part of his campaign aimed at forcing the government to hold early elections.

Reportedly a number of supporters of Mr Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party were also wounded in the attack. A little while after the incident Mr Khan was seen with a ...

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Mohammad Atif Khan, a senior politician and close aide of Khan, told NBC News he had been shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital. The former Pakistani ...

The former cricket captain is also seen to many in and around Pakistan as something of a common man's hero. Senior PTI member and former information minister Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry said in an impromptu speech following the shooting: "This is not only an assassination attempt on Imran Khan, but attack on Pakistan itself." The former Pakistani leader's condition is "out of danger," he added.

Local media reported that an assailant fired on Khan's convoy as the former leader travelled through the Pakistani city of Wazirabad, part of a multi-day march ...

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A gunman opened fire on the truck carrying the former prime minister and several other party officials taking part in a protest convoy. The attacked occurred ...

He said Khan asked the military for favors during his time in power, but did not specify what Khan requested. Nadeem Anjum, who rarely appears in public, announced the accusations at a heated news conference. Last week, Khan launched a march toward the country’s capital, Islamabad, to demand early elections.

GUJRANWALA, Pakistan: Imran Khan summits a lurching lorry bound for Islamabad and surveys the legions of feverish followers he hopes will propel him to ...

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