BIRMINGHAM: A man is reported to have protested during the speech of President Asif Ali Zardari at Pakistan People’s Party’s convention here on Saturday.

President Zardari was addressing a gathering of PPP workers at a convention here when a man stood up and threw something towards the direction of the President as he criticized the latter for his UK trip.

According an eyewitness who was present at the convention said ‘the man threw two shoes one after another in direction of the President when he was giving speech.’ Security personnel present there took the man into custody before taking him outside, the eyewitness added.

President Zardari is presently in UK on a trip which was widely criticized due to his leaving the country at a time when people in Pakistan are facing unprecedented floods that has killed over 1000 people and displaced millions.

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