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| Human shield against shoe hurling getting in vogue | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 20: The Srinagar shoe hurling incident has seemingly alerted the establishment in Islamabad forcing it to take in hand adequate steps which could secure ruling leaders and top bureaucrats against getting hit from a shoes thrower.
That the establishment in Islamabad has taken steps for preventing anyone from hurling shoes against any political leaders or against any foreign diplomat or dignitary became evident on Thursday when the security guards formed a human shield at the joint press conference held by Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari and the US senator, John Kerry, in Islamabad to ward off an embarrassing situation if someone hurled a shoe.
Reports received from across the border said that before the press conference the security guards installed a fence in the hall which kept the journalists on the other side of the fence. When the press conference started the security guards formed a human shield around the fence and kept a strict watch. Well experts are of the opinion that such steps were possible only in the halls and convention or conference centres but it was not possible to take such steps whenever leaders are to address public meetings.
Since the rise of terrorism in India the rostrum from which any VVIP is to address the public rally is kept 40 yards away from the first row of people and invariably the VVIPs are kept behind the bullet proof screens. If the Srinagar incident where a disgruntled policeman, Abdul Ahad Jan, hurled a shoe on the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, when the latter was unfurling the flag on the country's independence day has motivated the establishment in Islamabad to take steps for preventing such incidents from taking place in Pakistan the hurling of a shoe by an Indian journalist, at a press conference in Delhi, on Union Home Minister, P.C. Chidambaram, has taught Islamabad to initiate measures against such incident during any press conference.
Pakistan seems to have become wiser from the Delhi shoe hurling incident and accordingly ordered the security forces to install a fence and form a human wall so that none in the press conference dared to hurl a shoe against Zardri and Kerry. Like the Indian leaders Zardari and others too have started believing that newsmen could also get enraged or excited over some development that could provoke them to indulge in shoe hurling activity.
And if the shoe hurling incidents multiplied one may not find political leaders cherishing issuing long sermons to people in the public rallies and conferences. And if the political leaders insist on addressing public rallies and conferences raising of human shields against shoe hurling incidents may be in vogue. |
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