Tag: antiFrench

 In a cycle that has now become common under many far-right Islamist regimes, whenever an extremist group claims it is “offended” by a western country, the regime lashes out at Jews and the Holocaust. In the latest incident Pakistan’s leader Imran Khan compared “negative comments on the Holocaust” to ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged Western nations to prosecute hatred against Muslims with the “same standards” it applies to Holocaust denial, amid a wave of anti-French riots in his own country. Writing on Twitter, Khan urged Western governments “who have outlawed any negative comment on the Holocaust ...

An email from the French embassy warns of "serious threats" after anti-blasphemy protests. Source link

The French embassy in Pakistan has told its citizens to temporarily leave the country amid increasing anti-French sentiment and action by a now-banned radical Islamist group over the showing of Prophet Mohammed cartoons. “Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French companies are ...

Issued on: 15/04/2021 - 10:46Modified: 15/04/2021 - 11:02 France's embassy in Pakistan has advised all French nationals and companies to leave the country following violent anti-French protests that paralysed parts of the country this week. "Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French ...

Issued on: 15/04/2021 - 10:41 The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday advised all French nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country, after violent anti-France protests paralysed large parts of the country this week. "Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French ...

Members of the far-right Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan (TLP)  clashed with police in Pakistan on Tuesday after the party's leader was arrested for demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador, officials said. At least one police officer and one protester died during the second day of clashes in Lahore, the country's second-largest city, authorities ...

Health officials in Pakistan have condemned anti-French protesters after thousands of people halted traffic on main roads, causing a health “crisis” by blocking the delivery of critical oxygen supplies to Covid patients. Demonstrations broke out in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday after the nation’s police detained the Ameer of the ...

Issued on: 02/11/2020 - 16:32 In spite of President Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to calm the controversy over France’s right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, protests against France continue.  Reactions to the interview Macron gave to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television service on 1 October have been mixed. Macron ...

Hundreds of protesters in Pakistan on Sunday burned effigies of France’s leader and chanted anti-French slogans, as President Emmanuel Macron tried to send a message of understanding to Muslims around the world.The demonstrations, which followed anti-France protests across the Muslim world last week, came after President Macron’s interview ...