The gun attack on Imran Khan, which injured him and six other workers of his party, and killed one person, is set to escalate the ongoing battle between the former

Prime Minister and those he sees as obstacles to his return to power – the Shehbaz Sharif government and the Pakistan Army’s top leadership.Imran Khan attack The violence was an portentous and uncanny fogy to the deadly bombing of

Benazir Bhutto’s long procession from Karachi field on her return to Pakistan on October 18, 2007Imran was at a rally in   .

Pakistan’s Punjab fiefdom when the firing took place.( Photo Dawn)Imran Khan attack deepens fault- lines in Pakistan, may open space to defuse conflict