[ZH] Update(11:44ET): Pakistan security services have confirmed an attempted assassination against the country's ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier in the day at a political rally. A senior leader from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said Khan was shot in the foot, for which he's currently undergoing surgery. "The former Pakistan cricket captain was taken from the rally site just outside the town of Gujranwala to receive treatment in Lahore, around a two-and-a-half-hour drive away," CNN writes.
Bystanders and police could be seen jumping on a young suspected gunman, who was taken into custody at the scene immediately after series of shots rang out at the political parade, at which point Khan and his staff were standing on a large container. At least six were injured, and one person was killed in the attack:
Police said they detained a man suspected of firing shots at the rally. The male suspect was arrested with a 9mm pistol and two empty magazines, police said.
At least one person was killed in the incident, according to Faisal Javed, a senior PTI politician and close Khan ally who received a wound to the head in the attack. The victim’s name has not been released.
There's now concern that political violence could break out, given that the shooting came just as Khan was leading a protest march to the country's capital Islamabad...
"Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan started a protest march to the nation’s capital Islamabad in the latest attempt to press the government to call for early elections, while hitting back at the military’s spy chief," Bloomberg reported.
