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

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Party official confirms former prime minister shot in the leg but is not in danger.

Islamabad, Pakistan – Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, has sustained a bullet injury in his leg after shots were fired at a rally in Gujranwala.

Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, confirmed to Al Jazeera that the politician was shot in the leg but was not in danger.

Khan was taken to a hospital in Lahore.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting attack.

Khan has been leading a protest march to the capital, Islamabad, demanding snap elections.

More to follow.