ISAS Briefs

The unexpected has happened as Pakistan prepares to hold the next general election on 11 May 2013. Early in the evening of 7 May, Imran Khan, the rising star in Pakistani politics, suffered a fall in Gulberg, Lahore, a high-income constituency in the capital of the country's Punjab province. He fell while being lifted by a forklift on to a speaking platform. First carried on people's arms to his Sports Utility Vehicle and then transferred to an ambulance, Khan was eventually taken to Shaukat Khanum Hospital. He was attended there by a team of senior doctors. They used CT scans and X-Rays to determine the extent of injuries he had suffered. He did not have fractures in his skull but one of his vertebrae was damaged.