Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza, a prominent Pakistani religious cleric with over 3.1 million YouTube subscribers, survived an assassination attempt in Jhelum (a city in Punjab province, Pakistan) on Sunday when an unidentified gunman opened fire outside the Quran & Sunnat Research Academy where he delivers lectures. Security forces returned fire, killing the attacker on the spot, while a police constable assigned to Mirza's protection team was wounded in the foot and taken to hospital in a stable condition. The motive remains unclear, though Mirza — who has survived previous attacks, including one in March 2021 — has a history of controversy, having been detained and banned from public speaking in the past over remarks deemed likely to incite unrest.