OSLO, Jan 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf arrived here on Monday for a two-day visit clouded by anger within the Pakistani community here after a man claimed he was beaten up at the country’s embassy.
The president arrived amid heightened security in Norway. His plane reportedly touched down in the military zone of Oslo’s Gardermoen airport as two police helicopters circled and armed police guarded the airport, which is rare in this Scandinavian country where police are normally not armed.
The visit began as the World Islamic Mission (WIM), which counts about 6,000 members of Pakistani origin in Norway, called on the Pakistani community to voice its outrage at the alleged abuse of one of its members at the embassy in Oslo on Friday.
“We are not against Pervez Musharraf, we are not against Pakistan, we are unhappy with the embassy,” head of the WIM in Oslo, Ghulam Abbas told AFP.
According to Mr Abbas, the man was beaten up by the first secretary at the embassy when he went there to inquire as to why the WIM had received only four invitations to a meeting between President Musharraf and the Pakistani community instead of the 100 the group was initially promised.—AFP
