The French ambassador in Pakistan threatened with exile from the country due to cartoons on the Prophet Mohammed. This reports Reuters with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said that the Government of Pakistan insists to arrange a vote in parliament. Thus, the authorities are counting on the fact that they will be able to send a diplomat.
This decision was taken after negotiations with the extremely right Islamist movement of Tehrik – Labik Pakistan. His members encouraged Pakistanis to mass protests.
In mid-April, thousands of people blocked the main roads and railway tracks in Pakistan and arranged a collision with the police on the streets due to cartoons on the Prophet Mohammed in the French media. The leader of the extreme right Islamist movement “Tehirik-I-Labik Pakistan” Sad Rizvi was arrested for incitement to the unrest. He called on the followers to go to rallies across the country due to the fact that the authorities of Pakistan postpone the decision on the expulsion of the Ambassador of France.
Publications about the Prophet in Charlie Hebdo not for the first time provoke an indignation of Islamists. On January 7, 2015, the militants committed an armed attack on the editors of the magazine, as a result of which 12 people died. Five years, October 16, 2020, the French secondary school teacher Samuel Pati was cruelly killed by a trick from Chechnya for showing the same cartoons to children during the lesson. For the followers of Islam, any images of the Prophet Mohammed are unacceptable.