Imran Khan injured at rally ahead of Pakistan's election Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricketer turned reformist politician, was injured in a fall at an election rally on Tuesday night, four days before a vote that will mark Pakistan's first transfer of power between one democratically elected government and another. Mr Khan, founder and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI, the Movement for Justice), suffered head injuries when he fell from a stage with his bodyguards shortly before addressing a crowd of supporters in Lahore. He was carried away, dazed and bleeding, by his aides. Amid tributes and get well soon messages on Twitter, Jemima Khan, his ex-wife, tweeted that he was conscious and in hospital. Mr Khan and the PTI have portrayed themselves as representing a new kind of politics for Pakistan by criticising the corruption of established parties such as the Pakistan People's party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of Nawaz Sharif. PPP leaders headed the outgoing government that recently completed its five-year term and handed over power to an interim administration for the election. But opinion polls suggest that the biggest party in parliament after the May 11 election will be the PML-N, whose leader Mr Sharif, another Lahore-based politician, was twice prime minister in the past. Mr Khan, however, has attracted large crowds to his election rallies and is particularly popular with young, urban voters. Some analysts think he may beat the PPP and take second place, since the PPP is in disarray and lost popularity for failing to restore robust economic growth or end daily power cuts across much of the country. During the campaign, Islamist extremists of the Pakistan Taliban have attacked candidates and election rallies of smaller liberal and secular parties and rivals in other Islamist groups, but they have so far spared both Mr Nawaz's PML-N and Mr Khan's PTI, prompting complaints from targeted politicians that the election will be unfair. In the latest attacks, 17 people were killed on Tuesday in two bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkwa province in northwest Pakistan. In one, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 12 people in a failed attempt to kill an Islamist candidate. In the other, they succeeded in killing a local PPP leader. The Taliban has called Pakistani democracy un-Islamic. Mr Khan's fall from the stage may disrupt the final two days of his campaign. Imran Khan is able to speak. He is in a stable condition after receiving some stitches," Asad Umar, a PTI leader, told Geo TV. The doctors want to put him through a CT scan but there's no cause for concern. It was not clear last night if Mr Khan would have to cancel other public appearances for the campaign, which is due to end on Thursday. He fell when his bodyguards appeared to lose their balance and one of them clutched him, causing the whole group of men to fall to the ground.