Members of the UK's Pakistani community protested outside the residences of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and ex-wife of Imran Khan Jemima Goldsmith on Sunday.
A large number of people also gathered in London's Hyde Park to show support for former premier Imran, who was ousted on April 9 in a parliamentary no-confidence vote.
Protest in London, Outside of Nawaz Sharif's Flat pic.twitter.com/0UrzUL6KnC
— Mohsin Haleem (@mohsinhaleem_) April 17, 2022
A similar rally that took place on April 10 had drawn hundreds of participants.
Massive protest outside Nawaz Sharif’s house in London.
— Sufyan | سفیان (@sandstorm82) April 17, 2022
@ImranKhanPTI
@PTIofficial pic.twitter.com/pjbNFrAw1Y
PTI Leader @Chaudhryaftab82 protests outside Nawaz Sharif's home in Avenfield House, London after PMLN supporters protested outside @Jemima_Khan's home. #London #PunjabAssembly #Karachi #KarachiJalsaPTI #Avenfield pic.twitter.com/BCUH5jtsPM
— The Pakistan Daily (@ThePakDaily) April 17, 2022
Meanwhile, protests also took place outside the residence of Jemima Goldsmith despite her remarks that she and her children had nothing to do with politics in Pakistan.
Read more: Jemima Goldsmith, Hamid Mir get into Twitter spat
Protest by N League supporters outside Jemima Khan house in #London pic.twitter.com/gQDWhSDc4m
— Shiraz Hassan (@ShirazHassan) April 17, 2022
On Friday, Jemima said that she was having a terrifying déjà vu as supporters of her former husband’s political rivals started targeting her children with anti-Semitic slurs.
If you come to protest outside #NawazSharif house, we will also come to your bedrooms #PMLN supporters chanting outside @Jemima_Khan home in Richmond, #JemimaGoldsmith has already expressed her anger & tweeted I’ve nothing to do with Pakistani politics & neither have my children https://t.co/c9F2EDOUQW pic.twitter.com/2fhmxUc6Zw
— Salman (@BBCSalman) April 17, 2022
On Friday, she recounted the anti-Semitic attacks she had faced during her stay in Pakistan as she shared the poster of a protest being planned outside her London residence on April 17.
Protest outside Jemima Goldsmith against Imran Khan #Pakistan #ImranKhan #JemimaGoldsmith @MaryamNSharif #NawazSharif #MaryamNawaz # pic.twitter.com/aUNH41goXq
— Ahmed Attique (@maattique) April 17, 2022
“Protest outside my house, targeting my children, anti-Semitic abuse on social media... It’s almost like I’m back in the 90s Lahore,” Jemima tweeted with #PuranaPakistan, in her first social media reaction after the toppling of Imran’s government.
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This is bad behaviour and nothing justifies this. There is no comparison with protests outside NS home. He is a politician - @Jemima_Khan and her children are not involved in politics. They are being put at risk. All this even though it is clear she loves Pakistan & Pakistanis https://t.co/juRcsGUooF
— Shai Gohir OBE (@ShaistaGohir) April 16, 2022
The protest was allegedly planned by supporters of Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister who has been living in London since 2020 when he flew out of a Pakistani jail for treatment of some undiagnosed ailment. He was serving a jail term on charges of financial corruption.
PMLN supporters protest outside Jemima Goldsmith’s home in Richmond after PTI protests outside Avenfield flats following the ouster of former PM Imran Khan through a vote of no confidence. #JemimaGoldsmith has expressed anger at this protest she’s not involved in Pak politics pic.twitter.com/t4e1Osoaxw
— Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) April 17, 2022
Later in the day, Jemina Goldsmith and senior journalist Hamid Mir engaged in a rare public spat on Twitter.
Imran was married to Jemima from 1995 to 2004 and together they have two children, Qasim and Sulaiman. Jemima moved to London after her divorce from the ex-premier where she has been living with her sons ever since.
Jemima, daughter of billionaire James Goldsmith, converted to Islam for her marriage to Imran Khan but “she was constantly attacked as an insincere Muslim, part because of her Jewish grandfather,” according to a 2004 account in The Guardian.
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