Nawaz Sharif attacked in Lahore: Shoe hurled at former PM at Jamia Naeemia (VIDEO)

LAHORE – Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif came under a shoe attack during his visit to Jamia Naeemia in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu area on Sunday.

Soon as Nawaz reached the rostrum to address the participants of the event at the seminary, a man from the audience hurled a shoe at him which hit the former PM on his shoulder.

Following the incident, in which Nawaz remained unhurt, three men were detained by the seminary’s administration.

Video footage of the incident showed Sharif visibly shocked after the incident.

However, the PML-N leader went ahead with his address, although reportedly shortening his speech, only to thank the organisers and saying words of prayer for a deceased cleric.

The organisers said they were trying to ascertain the identity of the attacker and how he was able to enter the hall.

The incident comes days after another PML-N leader, Ahsan Iqbal, had a shoe thrown at him in Narowal, making it the third incident of similar nature against the ruling party’s top leadership in recent days.

On Saturday, a person threw ink at Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif while he was addressing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz convention.

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The person was taken into custody by the police; however, Asif said he should be released saying he has no enmity with him.

Condemnations

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan and his party condemned the incident.

“This is against our moral values and I am glad that a PTI worker is not involved in this incident,” Imran told the media in Faisalabad.

“I want to tell both PTI workers and the public that throwing shoes or ink on people is not the right way [to protest],” said the PTI chief.

In its message on Twitter, PTI said that it was regrettable that PML-N’s policies have turned the people against the party to the extent that they [the nation] have resorted to such antics.

PTI’s former general secretary Jahangir Tareen, in a tweet, said hurling shoes and throwing ink at rulers is “condemnable”. “Why resort to such acts, when you have the option of sending them out through the power of vote? Do take your revenge but take it gracefully,” he added.

Opposition MNA Sheikh Rashid also condemned the incident, terming it a complete collapse of intelligence and a result of “overconfidence” shown by the former premier.

Reacting to the incident, PPP co-chairman Bilawal Zardari said that the culture of lack of tolerance should not be promulgated. “It was a very unethical act,” remarked the PPP chief.

Other PPP leaders also took to social media to condemn the incident.

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also condemned the incident, calling the action ‘extremely wrong.’

“I wasn’t aware of this incident before you told me,” Shah said to the journalists, “but it is unethical to do this to anyone, be it a politician or a person who belongs to any other profession.”

Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement – Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Bahadurabad faction Faisal Subzwari tweeted that such “regrettable acts’ are likely to promote conflict and then, violence.

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