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Pakistani Candidate Shoots Himself
Not fatally, darn it!A candidate in parliamentary elections shot himself in the hand at a news conference Wednesday after promising photographers and journalists that he was about to give them a surprise. "Hey, y'all! Look what happens when I do this...!" The man, Khurshid Khan, was upset because of a decision by local members of the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, or PPPP, not to field a candidate for Thursday's vote in Peshawar. After the local officials decided not to back his candidacy, Khan chose to run as an independent. He said that by shooting himself in the hand he was showing PPPP leaders with his blood that he was still with them. He was also showing them he's a nut... Khan spoke during a 40 minute joint news conference, then got up abruptly and took a pistol out of his side pocket as journalists and other speakers stood in shock. A moment later he pointed the gun at his left hand and pulled the trigger, spraying blood over the podium. "I want to pledge my allegiance to the PPPP, and Benazir with my blood," he said after shooting himself. "Ow." Supporters wrapped Khan's hand in a towel and rushed him to a hospital. Despite the incident, Khan decided not to withdraw his candidacy in Thursday's vote. "'S'only a scratch, ma'am... Ow." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-09 |
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