New Delhi: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin on Thursday, November 3, when his anti-government protest convoy came under attack in Allahwala Chowk in Wazirabad, a city in eastern Pakistan. His aides said it was a “clear assassination” attempt.Several others in the convoy were wounded and the information minister said a suspect had been arrested. One party member said there were reports one person had been killed.“It was a clear assassination attempt. Khan was hit but he’s stable. There was a lot of bleeding,” Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesperson for Khan‘s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, told Reuters.“If the shooter had not been stopped by people there, the entire PTI leadership would have been wiped out.”Geo TV footage showed police shifting the 70-year-old Khan to a bullet-proof vehicle from the container he was riding at the time of the attack.Imran Khan was shot in the leg but was stable while being taken to hospital. He waived at supporters too. #عمران_خان_ہماری_ریڈ_لائن_ہے pic.twitter.com/XizoAQzPax— PTI (@PTIofficial) November 3, 2022He was taken to hospital in Lahore after the attack in Wazirabad, nearly 200 kilometre from the capital, Islamabad, Reuters reported.Protesters poured out on to streets in some parts of the country as PTI leaders demanded justice.Chaudhry told Dawn that three people – including senator Faisal Javed and Ahmad Chattha – were injured in the attack.The attacker has been arrested, local media reports said.The sole suspect caught by police has said that he wanted to kill Khan because “he was misleading the public.”“He (Imran) was misleading the people and I could not bear watching it so I killed him … attempted to kill him,” the suspect said in a video statement.“I tried my best to kill him. I wanted to kill Imran Khan only and no one else.”pic.twitter.com/vuMZnA3wDK— Syed Talat Hussain (@TalatHussain12) November 3, 2022Party colleague Faisal Javed, who was also wounded and had blood stains on his clothes, told Geo TV from the hospital: “Several of our colleagues are wounded. We heard that one of them is dead.”Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the shooting and ordered the interior minister to seek an immediate investigation. “Violence should have no place in our country’s politics,” he added.Federal government will extend all support necessary to Punjab govt for security & investigation. Violence should have no place in our country’s politics. 2/2 https://t.co/LWMUW03kQb— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) November 3, 2022The country’s President Arif Alvi also condemned the attack, describing it as “shocking, alarming, disgraceful, deceitful & cowardly”.Heinous assassination attempt on the brave @ImranKhanPTI I thank Allah that he is safe but injured with few bullets in his leg & hopefully non-critical. This attack is shocking, alarming, disgraceful, deceitful & cowardly. May Allah give him health & to all those injured.— Dr. Arif Alvi (@ArifAlvi) November 3, 2022Pakistan has a long history of political violence.In 1951, Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated on the stage in Rawalpindi’s Company Bagh.Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 in a gun and bomb attack after holding an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad.Her father and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged in the same city in 1979 after being deposed by a military coup.Former cricketer Khan was leading a protest march on Islamabad to demand snap elections. There were hundreds of people in the convoy.Since being ousted in April through a parliamentary vote, Khan has held rallies across Pakistan, stirring opposition against a government that is struggling to bring the economy out of the crisis that Khan‘s administration left it in.Khan had planned to lead the motorised caravan slowly northwards up the Grand Trunk Road to Islamabad, drawing more support along the way before entering the capital.“I want that all of you participate. This is not for politics or personal gain, or to topple the government… this is to bring genuine freedom to the country,” Khan said in a video message on the eve of the march.Note: This is a developing story. More details will be added as they become available.This story, which was published on November 3 at 5:25 pm, is being republished on the same date at 7:40 pm with more updates.