(7 Nov 2020) Hundreds of protesters marched on Saturday in Karachi calling on the Pakistani government to expel the country's French ambassador following Emmanuel Macron's comments about displaying caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The demonstrators were from the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, a far right Islamist organisation.
Tehreek-e-Labbaik member of the provincial assembly, Muhammad Qasim Fakhri, said the country must "close all ties with France."
Muslim-majority nations have witnessed protests and calls for boycotts of French products over the last few weeks, after Macron eulogised a French teacher in Paris who was decapitated after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
Islamist groups and hardliners around the Muslim world have rallied their supporters against the caricatures and the French government's staunch secularist stance, keeping up protests targeting Macron.
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