Thousands protest in Pakistan over reprinting of Mohammad S.A.W cartoons in France
Tens of heaps of people protested throughout Pakistan in Karachi on Friday towards French journal Charlie Hebdo's reprinting of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad, chanting "Death to France" and calling for boycotts of French products.
"Decapitation is the punishment of blasphemers," study one of the placards carried through protesters.
The cartoons introduced approximately unrest and outrage amongst Muslims of the world in the yerar 2005 once they first posted via Jyllands-Posten that is a Danish newspaper .
Earlier this week, Charlie Hebdo - a satirical weekly - revived the cartoons to mark the begin of the trial of suspected accomplices in an Islamist militant assault on its Paris workplace in January 2015.
The Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people who attacked Charlie Hebdo were tried in a French courtroom on Wednesday, the first day of the trial, in an attempt to avenge Hazrat Mohammad. Publication of the cartoons was once noted as the purpose for the attack.
Friday's protests have been geared up with the aid of the hardline Islamist Tehreek-e-Laibak Pakistan (TLP) birthday celebration with rallies held in Karachi, the country's biggest city, as nicely as in Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Lahore and Dera Ismail Khan.
Protesters paralysed visitors in Karachi, Pakistan's monetary and commercial enterprise capital.
“It (re-printing of cartoons) quantities to massive terrorism; they repeat such acts of blasphemy towards Prophet Mohammad each few years. It have to be stopped,” stated Razi Hussani, TLP district leader in Karachi.
Similar rallies held in Pakistan in 2015 became violent, with ratings injured as police clashed with protesters attempting to make their way to the French consulate in Karachi.
Pakistan's authorities additionally condemned the reprinting of the cartoons. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi stated the South Asian us of a believed in freedom of expression however such liberty does now not suggest a license to offend non secular sentiment.
Charlie Hebdo has lengthy examined the limits of what society will take delivery of in the title of free speech.
“We will by no means lie down. We will by no means provide up,” Charlie Hebdo editor Riss Sourisseau wrote in explaining the choice to re-publish the cartoons.
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