Pakistan government signs a pact with radical Islamist organization to end violent anti-France protests
Pakistan PM Imran Khan's staunch criticism of French President Emmanuel Macron's statements reaffirming commitment to secularism has emboldened the radical groups in Pakistan
Islamist radical groups and fundamentalists have always held enormous sway in Pakistan. It’s internal and external policies, to a very large extent, are shaped and guided by the sensitivities harboured by such maximalist organizations and individuals. Every official regime in Pakistan has always demonstrated its utmost deference to such anarchist groups and held them in high regard.
Recently, the Pakistani government signed a pact with hardcore Islamist organization Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) to call off the protests that had swept the country in the wake of France’s resolute support to the right of showing the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
The agreement between the Pakistani government and hard-line TLP group bore the signatures of two ministers– the religious affair minister and the interior minister of Pakistan. The agreement states that the government has agreed to send back the French ambassador to Pakistan within two months, call its ambassador back, a blanket boycott of French products, and release all the arrested TLP leaders.
However, shortly after signing the pact, the government of Pakistan developed cold feet as it said that the issue was still unresolved. The government has also not confirmed as to how a sweeping boycott of French products will be brought into force.
Pakistani government signed a pact with hardcore Islamist organisation Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) to call off the anti-France protests
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Would a sweeping boycott of French products include French Mirage jets of the PAF too as well as their French Agosta subs? These Porks with two and a half brain cells don't seem to know WTF they're doing. Jeeez!