Sunday, August 8, 2010

Pakistan's Zardari faces protests in the UK

The protestors said that the president should not visit the United Kingdom leaving the hapless people of Pakistan at the mercy of raging floods.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By Express | August 7, 2010

BIRMINGHAM: Scores of people staged protest demonstrations outside the Convention Centre on the occasion of President Asif Ali Zardari’s address to the PPP meeting on Saturday in Birmingham.

Hundreds of people belonging to PML-N and other opposition parties and the civil society participated in the demonstrations.

According to media reports, protesters voiced slogans against the president, when he along with Bilawal Bhutto and Pakistani High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan reached the Convention Center.

The protestors said that the president should not visit the United Kingdom leaving the hapless people of Pakistan at the mercy of raging floods. The president should share the miseries of Pakistani nation in such worst condition, they added.

Heavy contingent of police stopped the protestors from  entering into the Convention Center, however they continued their protest Zardari outside the center.



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