Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan who survived an attempted murder, has praised the individual as the nation's "hero" for stopping the attack and capturing the shooter during his long march through Punjab state. Ibtisam, who stopped the attack and caught the shooter during the march, and Khan met in the Shaukat Khanum Hospital, where Ibtisam is receiving medical attention for the bullet wounds that fractured his lower limbs and punctured them with bullets. Mr. Khan's supporters are hailing the man who defeated the armed attacker as a hero. Some people, including the former prime minister of Pakistan, have referred to Ibtisam Hassan, who is supposedly in his early 30s, as the saviour.