


The attacker – who was immediately apprehended and who said he does not have any group’s support, confessed to authorities that he was motivated by Imran Khan’s ‘disregard’ for religious rituals to kill him. On Thursday, November 3, Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan narrowly escaped an assassination attempt as he led his ‘long-march’ rally through Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab, to reach Islamabad, suffering a bullet wound in his leg.
