The former Prime Minister is campaigning across the country to ask for the holding of early elections following his ouster in April.
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Imran Khan’s anti -government march to Islamabad took a tragic round Thursday, November 3. The 70 -year -old former Pakistani Prime Minister was the target of fire in the city of Wazirabad, at Pendjab. He was perched on a container to harangue the crowd when he was shot in the tibia. It is out of danger, but this attack is likely to worsen the political crisis and the instability that Pakistan has been going through for six months. During the day, clashes were reported in the country, demonstrators attacked army symbols.
Imran Khan was immediately taken to the hospital in a car on which a dozen people in his close guard were rose. Its safety device was quite light. He did not wear a bulletproof vest. One of his supporters was killed and seven other injured people, including a Senator Faisal Javed, a deputy for Tehreek-E-insaf and leaders of his party, Pakistan Tehrik-E-insaf (PTI, Pakistan Movement for Justice ).
The attack of the attack and the number of attackers involved are still vague. A man was arrested by the police and said he acted alone. “Imran Khan was cheating on people and I couldn’t tolerate it, so I tried to kill him,” he said in a video broadcast by the police. The head of government of the Pendjab, Pervez Elahi, said, for his part, there were two shooters.
repair of popularity
The former cricket champion had taken the lead on October 28 at Lahore of an operation called “long march” which is in fact a convoy of trucks and cars in front of carrying it on November 4 in the Pakistani capital, for Demand anticipated general elections, normally scheduled for October 2023. Each evening, it stops in a city and is addressed to thousands of supporters from the top of a container placed on a truck.
chased from power in April, following a motion of distrust of the deputies, Imran Khan maintains that he was the victim of a plot hatched by his successor Shehbaz Sharif and the United States, as well as the army. His ouster paradoxically inflated his popularity, well underway, when he directed the country, through the economic crisis. The president of the PTI has been mobilizing the street for six months to try to return to power with popular support. Its base, made up of urban middle class, tired by the Bhutto and Shari dynasties which followed one another, sensitive to its populist rhetoric and its charisma, has extended to non -urban and women. To neutralize it, the government has launched multiple legal proceedings against it.
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