Pakistan's Interior Minister, Ahsan Iqbal, has been shot and wounded in his shoulder while attending a provincial assembly meeting in Narowal.
A district police officer says as he got out of a car, a young man shot him.
The assailant has been apprehended and identified as Abid Hussain, a 21-year-old from Neelum village in Narowal.
It has not been confirmed if the gunman is a member of a hardline Islamist group, but more details are to be released today.