Attack on Imran Khan: Pakistan police arrest two more suspects

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Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested two more suspects, who they believe had sold the pistol and bullets for PKR 20,000 to Naveed Mohammad Basheer, the assailant who tried to assassinate former premier Imran Khan during a political rally, according to a media report on Friday.

Mr. Khan, 70, suffered a bullet injury in the right leg on Thursday, when Basheer fired a volley of bullets at him in the Punjab province, where he was leading a protest march against the government.Police sources said that two other suspects — Waqas and Sajid Butt — sold Basheer a pistol and bullets for PKR 20,000, adding that the pistol did not have a number or license, Geo TV reported. the attacker said that he tried to kill Imran Khan because he was "misleading the people". “I did it because he [Imran Khan] was misleading the people. I wanted to kill only Imran Khan and no one else...I came alone on my bike. I made the decision when he left Lahore. I acted alone, nobody else is involved,” the attacker said.

They were arrested from Wazirabad in Punjab province, the report said, quoting police sources.According to eyewitnesses, Basheer fired on the container-mounted truck carrying Mr. Khan from a close range.

Mr. Khan was shifted by road to his own-built Shaukat Khanum medical facility in Lahore where an operation was performed and was stable after it, according to his party.

His party said he is stable now, adding that he was determined to continue his protest march.Jemima Goldsmith, the ex-wife of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, praised the man who foiled the attack on the former Prime Minister during the party's long march in Gujranwala and expressed relief after Dr Faisal Sultan said that the PTI Chairman's condition is stable.

After the announcement of Imran Khan being safe and stable following the "assassination attempt," Ms Goldsmith took to Twitter and conveyed their sons' gratitude to the man who caught the attacker.

"The news we dread... Thank God he's okay. And thank you from his sons to the heroic man in the crowd who tackled the gunman," she tweeted.

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