Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari gets shoes thrown at him at Birmingham

The incident not only depicts the anger of people of Pakistan against President Zardari for leaving the country for a leisure trip when the people are fighting with the flood, but also throws light on the repute enjoyed by him among the people of Pakistan. This incident is a sad one indeed but it also gives a bit of hope to the well wishers of Pakistan Peoples Party who are very much in pain since the hijack of this power hub, by Zardari and his hooligans. It is encouraging that there are still some people within the party who can express the peoples sentiments anytime anywhere. Lets hope that the Party wins its liberty and identity very soon.

It is sad that people have to resort to such tactics to vent out their frustration! Hope they get better avenues..

Well Samantha, you can feel the extent of people's helplessness at the hands of these hollow headed politicians, they have to resort to such actions, as no one heeds to their vows.

I am with you nadeem....

Thanx Shaz, I think the people who do not find a bit of sense in this incident are right in their stance, as they do not belong to Pakistan and they cannot feel the agony the people of Pakistan are going through. They do not know how much shameless and sans morality these politicians can be.. As Seima in her comment has described in a few words... They don't have a face to feel a face off!! Very right! we are ashamed but Zardari is not!!!

tHat,s GoOd...!!
for the president..
he will no the power of people..

I, for one, am happy that son of a **** got shoes thrown at him. He deserves it, and probably even more. I hope he rots in hell (actually there is no hope, that loser will rot in hell for the things he has done). The sad part in all this is that he is the leader of Pakistan because not only is he greedy for money he is a mere high school graduate! We have a greedy uneducated creep controlling our country, and all he can do is eat money rather than invest it in his country. No wonder no one respects us, i wouldn't either, we have a bomb blast a day, then a shooting another, and he does is go in tours. What a F***ING A***ole.

Let me recall the shoe throwing by the TV journalist Muntazer Al Zaidi towards U.S President Bush at Baghdad while in a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nuri-Al-Maliki for signing a security agreement on December 14, 2008. When two shoes were flung one after another the U.S President rightly ducked and shoes slammed on the wall behind him. The journalist had shouted in Arabic that “This is the farewell to Bush” while Bush had shrugged and said “I am O.K”. Later on he had commented “All I can report is it is size 10”! Zaidi was based at Cairo representing the Iraqi owned TV Al-Baghdadia.

The Reporter’s anger was against Bush for the thousands of Iraqis who died after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. He had previously captured headlines only once, when he was briefly kidnapped by gunmen in 2007.

Zaidi was greeted by cheers inside the late Saddam Hussein’s Al Faw palace, where he was seen standing beneath an American flag. He became famous (notorious?) but was jailed.

Shoe-throwing must have been originated from the Arab world where it is traditionally a sign of protest!

There afterwards there were more incidents of shoe throwing in India, not because those Shoes are less costly to be thrown easily. On 07 April,2009 a reporter belonging to the ‘Sikh’ community flung a shoe targeting Home Minister P.Chidambaram on getting infuriated on the Minister’s reply to a question. The Home Minister had replied on the issue of the clean chit given by C.B.I to a prominent Politician Jagdish Tytler on his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots wherein around 3000 people of Sikh religion died.

Despite sitting in the front row, Jarnail Singh missed the bulls-eye, while the Home Minister leaned back and avoided the shoe, a size 9 Reebook sneaker. The Minister was so kind and gracious in his immediate remark “Please take him away, gently, gently, gently, doesn’t matter, please, please settle down, please settle down”.
Shiromani Akali Dal, a Sikh political party, offered Singh a $4,000 reward to Jarnail Singh for his "courage and bravery." Many people pushed for an auction of said shoes. Unfortunately Singh could not respond positively for the auction as he felt that the hurling was a not-for-profit activity. Further the police have not returned shoes after producing it in courts as evidence!

This incident motivated retired a retired school principal threw a shoe towards a popular Congress Party lawmaker Naveen Jindal during an election rally. Later on after getting bail, the teacher explained that he hadn't aimed at Jindal as much as India's political system. Returning home inebriated that day, he saw the rally and became furious on false promises given by politicians at a time when his son had just lost his job. Prime ministerial candidate L K Advani had also experienced shoe throws in electioneering.

The other international leaders who became victims of shoe-throws are Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Iran President Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mr Wen was the target when he addressed at Cambridge University. When the shoe was hurled at him, he called it a “despicable act. It cannot stand in the way of friendship between China and the UK.”

The former Deputy Prime Minister of England John Prescott was not kind enough to be very refined like P. Chidambaram when a farmer threw an egg at him in 2001. He had punched the farmer!

There were other incidents like throwing of eggs, ice-cream etc seem to be the new items used as the weapon to protest against famous people and their actions. Pies and custards were later on added to the list.

Indonesian students had thrown shoes towards an image of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit to Indonesia in the First week of March,2010 outside the parliament building in the capital city of Jakarta. Dozens of Indonesian students staged an anti-Obama protest two weeks prior to his visit. They were against the installation of the statue representing Obama as a school student during his early days of childhood in the same Christian School of Indonesia where he studied.

There is big list of people like……. Peter Mandelson, the British Business Secretary received throws by Green custard , Michel Camdessus, the former IMF chief, had a fruit-and-cream pie thrown at him Robert Naiman, an anti-IMF of the “50-Years-is-Enough” campaign activist in Bangkok , Milton Friedman, the high priest of free markets, got “pied” by , as did Thomas Friedman (he ducked the plates of green whipped cream), Bill Gates, Jeffrey Skilling (the CEO of Enron) and the former WTO head, Mr Renato Ruggiero etc.

well asif ali zardari just deserved this shoe, i'm ashmaed to say this but i think he has no shame at all

Precise but accurate. Well said Seima!!

Hello and how do you do?
Orginally the problem with pakistani people is that, unfortunately pakistani people never ever got a leader in our past nor we will get a devoted leader. Asif Zardari is the 2nd most richest person in pakistan and he says that he is the most devoted person to pakistan. why he goes and visites foriegn countries for begging adds? If pakistan survives on the map of the world Zardari will be recognized if there is no pakistan, who will recognize Zardari? Zardari is because of Pakistan. Why he does not invest his investement in pakistan? why has he kept his whole wealth in the swiss's banks? why why ....................?

Zardari is a theif and he likes to suck on massive penises.
He should be shot and then cut up and fed to pigs.
He is a disgrace to civilization and a waste of air.
I love for the day when he is killed at the hands of his own people. I beleive that day will come soon.

dear intrepid 6, u snatched my words, the comments given by u are really zardari deserves

He is the garbage, once he barked that "Promises, are not Quran or Hadees".
he has zero credibility
gift of show is very small punishment for hims he deserve more

We should hit him shoes cover with urine and gutter water

may he receive such kind of more treatment