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Abid Hussain

Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan shot in leg at protest march

Imran Khan waves to supporters after the shooting incident [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, has sustained a bullet injury in his leg after a gunman opened fire at a rally in Wazirabad, in the country’s east.

The cricketer-turned-politician, who was leading a protest march demanding snap elections, was out of danger and taken to a hospital in Lahore for treatment, Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, confirmed to Al Jazeera.

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