Imran Khan Shooting Video Shows Former Pakistan Leader Injured After Attack

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was wounded after his convoy was shot at on Thursday.

Khan and several others were injured after a man opened fire with an automatic weapon, said Asad Umar, an official from Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

Khan was transported to a hospital in Lahore after being shot in the leg, Umar told reporters. "He is not seriously wounded. A bullet hit him in the leg," he said, according to the Associated Press.

The gunman was arrested at the scene. His identity was not immediately known and no group has claimed responsibility. The Interior Ministry said the government has ordered a probe into the incident.

Police said the attack happened in the Wazirabad district in the eastern Punjab province where Khan was traveling in a large convoy of trucks and cars. Khan, a 70-year-old who rose to fame as a cricket star, was leading a protest march to Islamabad to demand snap elections after being ousted in a no-confidence vote in April.

Videos posted on social media show several men rushing Khan from the scene after the shooting. Khan was later seen with a bandage on his foot, the AP reported. He was moved to another vehicle from his container truck.

On Facebook, Khan's party shared a video of Khan waving to supporters after being injured.

"Imran Khan is a brave man. These high tricks can't lower his morale, he is standing firm even in injured condition," the party wrote alongside the clip, according to a translation.

Fawad Chaudhry, a senior leader from Khan's party, told supporters surrounding his truck that the attack was an assassination attempt on Khan.

It comes days after Khan began a march from Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, with thousands of supporters. He has alleged that his ousting was engineered by his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and the United States. Both Sharif and Washington have denied those claims.

Sharif's government has said there would be no early vote and that the next elections will be held in 2023.

"What we need to understand first of all is the fact that the change of the government took place through a constitutional process," Sharif told Newsweek in August.

"All political forces of the country minus Imran Khan's PTI came together to form this vastly representative government to take on the most urgent issues facing the people."

Pakistan has a long history of political assassinations, including that of Benazir Bhutto, the first democratically elected female leader of a Muslim country, in 2007.

Update 11/03/22, 10:27 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.