Pakistan: Journalist throws shoe at CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore

A journalist in Lahore rushed past security and threw a shoe at Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore on Thursday, but it missed. The journalist, Imdad Ali, working in private Sindhi television launched the projectile at the CM Punjab as he was a special guest at three-day South Asia Labour Conference. According to reports, before throwing the show, Ali raised slogans against expected restrictions on a news channel. A spokesman for Shahbaz Sharif did not immediately respond to comment. The reports, the security staff of the CM Punjab will investigate the journalist regarding the incident after the incident whether he did it himself or any other power behind the incident. It is the not the first incident of shoe-thrower in Pakistan as former military ruler Pervez Musharaf.