Agencies/Islamabad
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Rehman Malik urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to probe a Kashmir rally incident in London, where Bilawal Bhutto was forced off the stage, media reported yesterday.
He said that Bilawal raised his voice for Kashmiris and visited London to express his solidarity with them, The News International reported.
Malik spoke to the media at his residence in Karachi, where he also urged the prime minister to order an inquiry into the matter.
Thousands attended the Million March in London on Sunday.
The rally started from Trafalgar Square and concluded at 10 Downing Street.
During the rally, protesters threw plastic bottles, shoes and cans at Bilawal Bhutto as soon as he took the stage at Trafalgar Square.
The protesters shouted slogans against him and his father, Asif Ali Zardari.
They were angered because they thought that Bilawal wanted to use the platform to launch his political career.
Soon after Bilawal left the stage, people started tweeting with the hashtag, ‘#BhagBilloBhag’.
One of the organisers said the march was “to protest against human rights violations by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir”.
They planned to submit a petition asking the British government “to impress upon India to resolve the Kashmir dispute”.
A few thousand men, women in hijabs and even children waved Pakistani flags behind police barricades at the British capital’s Trafalgar Square.
Only some of them assembled there walked down the thoroughfare of Whitehall towards Downing Street – the official residence of the British prime minister – for presenting a petition.
“Unfortunately we do not provide crowd figures,” said London’s Metropolitan Police Service, popularly known as Scotland Yard.
Geo News put out a report that “Indian agents” attempted to prevent Bhutto from taking part, without revealing the source of the news.
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