This is dubious in the extreme. When did Khan claim to be a prophet?
The suspect Naveed Muhammad Basheer: imran khan said he is the Prophet of Islam.I wanted to kill Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI because he was misleading people. #blasphemy #abolishblasphemylaws pic.twitter.com/Vwz0aqphSk
— Faraz Pervaiz (@FarazPervaiz3) November 4, 2022
“Imran Khan: Shock and condemnation over attack on Pakistan ex-PM,” by Tarhub Asghar, Samira Hussein, and Frances Mao, BBC News, November 4, 2022:
Mr Khan, 70, is recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg on Thursday at a protest march in Wazirabad, in the north-east of the country.
One person was killed and at least 10 injured in the attack on his convoy.
But Mr Khan is in a stable condition, his team say, and could potentially be discharged in the coming days….
Immediately after the shooting, some of his allies told media that Mr Khan believed the current political leaders – including Prime Minister Sharif, the interior minister and a military general – were behind the attack.One spokesman, Raoof Hasan, told the BBC’s Newshour programme the government was “attempting to eliminate [Imran Khan] physically”.
Pakistan’s leaders have not yet addressed such allegations.
Mr Khan, who remains popular, has previously characterised his removal as prime minister as a political conspiracy and been loudly critical for months of the current government and military leaders. Courts have convicted him in recent corruption cases but he has disputed the verdicts as politically motivated.
Police on Tuesday night released a video confession of the man who they said had attempted to kill Mr Khan.
It’s unclear the conditions under which the interview was carried out. But, in response to police asking him why he had opened fire, he said: “He was misguiding the people. I wanted to kill him. I tried to kill him.”
The video has been dismissed by Mr Khan’s allies as a “cover-up”….
