rather than
return to deal with the flooding in Pakistan.
Demonstrators calling on him to go home gathered in the city of Birmingham in the English midlands where Mr. Zardari made a speech to hundreds of members of his Pakistan People’s Party.
Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.
The President talked about trade and terror, but very little of his address mentioned the floods in Pakistan, a reason many say he should never have made the trip here
in the first place
. On Wednesday, the President was
heckle
d by an elderly man, who threw a shoe in his direction. The man was subsequently removed by police. But the majority of the 1,700 people who came to see the president cheered and
applaud
ed the fact he’d visited Birmingham.
An Austrian bishop has described the love parade music festival in which 21 people died as a sinful event. About 500 people were also injured during a
stampede
of the festival in the German city of Duisburg last month. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Andreas Laun published his views on a religious website. Jason Cafrey reports.
Bishop Andreas Laun has called the event an invitation to sin.
Compassion
with the victims is one thing, Bishop Laun wrote, another, he says, is the
conclusion
that the love parade and taking part in it were a rebellion against creation and God’s order, although, the Bishop was careful to point out, that the dead should not be viewed as God’s punishment.