Imran attacker had AK-47, says ex-guv who was next to ex-PM

Assailant Says In ‘Confessional Video’ He Wanted To Kill PTI Chief As He Had Been ‘Misguiding The People’

- Omer Farooq Khan

Islamabad: A person identified as Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf supporter Muazzam Nawaz was killed and six others, including senior party functionaries Ahmed Chattha and Chaudhry Yousuf, were injured in the shooting at Allah Wala Chowk by a lone gunman at former Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s long march in Wazirabad. The assailant, who was promptly overpowered and whisked away, said in a purported confessional video recorded in custody that he was on a mission to assassinate Imran as the latter had been “misguiding the people”. “I wanted to kill him. I tried to kill him,” the arrested man is heard saying in the clip in response to a question from the police.

TV stations aired footage showing a conscious Imran with a bandaged leg being escorted into a black SUV after the attack. He was moved to Lahore’s Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital, named after his mother, and taken for surgery to remove the bullets in his leg, said Dr Faisal Sultan.