The accident occurred as Khan slipped and fell 15 feet while a platform lift was carrying him up to the stage. He was immediately taken to hospital.
A five-year-old video of former cricketer and Pakistani politician Imran Khan falling at a campaign rally has been posted online with the claim that it shows him being assaulted at his home.
Uploaded on YouTube on 25 June by many accounts, the video is being widely shared on WhatsApp, Twitter and other social media.
The video is actually from a campaign rally addressed by Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief (PTI), during the country’s last general election in 2013, and was originally posed on YouTube by The Telegraph on 7 May that year.
The accident occurred as Khan slipped and fell 15 feet while a platform lift was carrying him up to the stage. He was immediately taken to hospital.
The aspiring prime minister is gearing up for the country’s upcoming general elections, scheduled to take place on 25 July.
Khan, a man once famous for his playboy lifestyle, has been courting controversy after controversy this election season. While his nomination papers have been rejected for two of five constituencies, a former chief justice of Pakistan has said he will challenge Khan’s eligibility to hold public office over his alleged lies about fathering a love child.
In March, a shoe was hurled at him during a public rally, but it missed its mark and hit another PTI leader.
Khan has also been in the news over his party members’ diatribes against his ex-wife Reham Khan, whose upcoming memoirs reportedly contain private information that paints the politician in a poor light.
This article is in collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer.