Former Prime Minister Imran Khan injured in gun attack in Pakistan - CNN

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN  — 

Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan was injured Thursday aft an unidentified gunman opened occurrence astatine a rally, according to an authoritative from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

A slug deed Khan successful his foot, PTI elder person Asad Umar said.

The erstwhile Pakistan cricket skipper was taken from the rally tract conscionable extracurricular the municipality of Gujranwallah to person attraction successful Lahore. At slightest 3 different radical were injured by gunfire. The grade of the different injuries is not yet known.

On October 21, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) recommended that Khan beryllium disqualified from holding governmental bureau for 5 years, a determination apt to further inflame governmental tensions successful the country.

While speechmaking retired the recommendation, ECP main Sikandar Sultan Raja stated that Khan was disqualified for being progressive successful “corrupt practices.”

The committee said its determination was based connected the grounds that Khan had “made mendacious statements” regarding the declaration of the merchantability of gifts sent to him by the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Dubai portion successful bureau – an discourtesy that is amerciable nether the country’s constitution.

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