LONDON: A man tried to throw his shoe at Pervez Musharraf when he was
addressing a gathering here, a media report here said on Saturday. It
was the second such attempt on the former Pakistan president.
The
attempt was made when Musharraf was addressing the Kashmiri community
in Luton. Security personnel promptly caught hold of the man and took
him out of the venue.
Another man raised slogans against
Musharraf.This is not the first time that an attempt was made to throw a
shoe at Musharraf.In February this year, a man threw a shoe at
Musharraf when he was addressing a gathering in Britain. The shoe didn’t
hit the former military dictator.
Musharraf ruled Pakistan for
nine years after taking power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He stepped
down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London.
An Iraqi
journalist, Muntazar al Zaidi, threw his shoes at US president George
Bush in 2008, sparking a string of copy-cat attacks. Later, shoes were
tossed at Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Pakistan President Asif
Ali Zardari and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Online
