{"id":254939,"date":"2022-11-03T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=254939"},"modified":"2022-11-03T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:58:00","slug":"imran-khan-injured-in-firing-at-rally-in-pakistans-punjab-taken-to-hospital-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/03\/imran-khan-injured-in-firing-at-rally-in-pakistans-punjab-taken-to-hospital-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan Injured In Firing At Rally In Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab, Taken To Hospital: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Imran Khan Injured In Firing At His Rally, Taken To Hospital: Reports\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Imran Khan Injured In Firing At His Rally, Taken To Hospital: Reports\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Imran Khan Injured In Firing At His Rally, Taken To Hospital: Reports\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/sfk6g2e_imran-khan-injured-ndtv-650_650x400_03_November_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-03T17:33:57+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=663746&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/03112022_n_ImranKhan_182646_710528_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T4M07S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/sfk6g2e_imran-khan-injured-ndtv-650_650x400_03_November_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=663746&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Imran Khan being shifted to a car after firing during his &#8220;long march&#8221; against Shehbaz Sharif government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was injured in firing during his rally in Gujranwala in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province and was rushed to\u00a0a hospital. He was seen bandaged on his right leg and and being moved into an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, who has been arrested, fired at Imran Khan from below when the former cricketer was standing atop a container-truck to address his ongoing &#8220;long march&#8221; to Islamabad against the Shehbaz Sharif government.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, about 200 km from Islamabad,\u00a0comes nine months after he was unseated upon losing the army establishment&#8217;s confidence.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0brought back chilling memories of how former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was shot dead during a rally in 2007, though\u00a0Mr Khan escaped serious injury, said news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Barely an hour before the firing, he had told supporters in another part of Gujranwala, where he was scheduled to deliver a speech, that they should\u00a0accompany him to a different part of the city instead, promising to speak there, <em>Geo <\/em>reported. His party tweeted a video showing him boarding the container-truck from his black SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The firing took place minutes later as he got to the container&#8217;s roof for his speech. The gunman fired from a pistol from the left side of where Imran Khan was standing; he could not get close enough for a clear shot in a tight crowd, reports said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ur\">\u0639\u0645\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u062e\u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u0646\u0679\u06cc\u0646\u0631 \u067e\u0631 \u067e\u06c1\u0646\u0686 \u06af\u0626\u06d2! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%86?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u067e\u0627\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646_\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0686<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LRAhFLH72t\">pic.twitter.com\/LRAhFLH72t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PTI (@PTIofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTIofficial\/status\/1588101410452807680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local channel <em>Geo News <\/em>reported that chaotic scenes broke out near his reception camp at Allahwala Chowk after the gunshots rang. At least four party leaders were among those injured, it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having been unseated reportedly after losing the army establishment&#8217;s confidence in April, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader has been demanding resignation of the new central government.<\/p>\n<p>His two main opponents that are otherwise rivals of each other too \u2014 the Sharifs&#8217; Muslim League (PML-N) and the Bhuttos&#8217; Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) \u2014 are together in the new government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/firing-at-imran-khans-rally-in-pakistan-3486916\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Imran Khan being shifted to a car after firing during his &#8220;long march&#8221; against Shehbaz Sharif government. Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was injured in firing during his rally in Gujranwala in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province and was rushed to\u00a0a hospital. He was seen bandaged on his right leg and and being moved into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1908,304895,8221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}