Former Prime Minister Imran Khan shot in foot after gun attack at rally in Pakistan - CNN

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN  — 

Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan was changeable successful the ft astatine a rally Thursday, according to an authoritative from his party, which said the incidental was an assassination attempt.

A slug deed Khan successful his ft aft an unidentified gunman opened fire, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) elder person Asad Umar said.

The erstwhile Pakistan cricket skipper was taken from the rally tract conscionable extracurricular the municipality of Gujranwala 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.

Khan was unseated successful a ballot of no-confidence successful April, pursuing claims of atrocious governance and economical mismanagement.

Since past helium has repeatedly claimed, without providing immoderate evidence, that the United States had orchestrated his ouster. Khan’s allegations person go a staple astatine rallies helium has held crossed Pakistan successful a bid to instrumentality to power.

His claims person struck a chord with a young colonisation successful a state wherever anti-American sentiment runs high, and anti-establishment feelings are being fueled by a rising outgo of surviving crisis.

This is not the archetypal clip that Pakistani politicians person been attacked.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated connected December 27, 2007, and past Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani survived an assassination effort successful 2008.