Pakistan minister said to be stable after shooting

Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal underwent two surgeries and was in stable condition Monday after being shot the previous day by a gunman whose motive remains unclear, officials said.

The chief physician at the Lahore hospital where Ahsan Iqbal is being treated said the bullet fractured his right arm, then ricocheted and lodged in his abdomen. Dr. Mohammad Ameer said surgeons opted not to remove the bullet as that would have entailed a more dangerous procedure.

The gunman, who police identified as Abid Hussain, shot Iqbal as the minister was returning to his car after meeting with constituents, and was immediately arrested. It's not clear what motivated the attack, but the gunman has been linked to a group of religious hard-liners who rallied in Islamabad earlier this year.