Bilawal Bhutto deserved 'mistreatment' from angry London mob: NCP

Maintaining that the Kashmir issue should be resolved between India and Pakistan, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Majid Memon on Monday endorsed the heckling of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari by an angry mob in London.

Memon said the protest on the streets of London by Bilawal was absolutely unwarranted. "And, it has no meaning; there is no point in taking up the issues between India and Pakistan to a foreign soil and make this kind of an ugly demonstration," Memon told ANI here.

"And, I think these issues can only be sorted out between the two countries concerned and the stakeholders, but this kind of a demonstration deserves the way Bilawal has been dealt with by an angry mob," he said.

The 'Million March' from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street in the United Kingdom descended into chaos as Bilawal stepped on to the makeshift stage to speak.

The crowd began booing and throwing empty plastic bottles and refused to let Bilawal speak. A group of angry protesters, who had travelled from Derby in the East Midlands region of England, said this march was to be about Kashmir and for the welfare of Kashmiris, adding that Bilawal has no business being here.

The march, led by Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, referred to as a former prime minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was supported by British Parliamentarian Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham.

A counter-protest held by a rival group on Sunday ended with memorandums submitted for the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan at their High Commissions in London. The memorandums urged both New Delhi and Islamabad to 'respect the fundamental human rights of all citizens of Jammu and Kashmir'.