(28 Oct 2020) Dozens of people in the southern port city of Karachi protested France’s refusal to condemn the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
Demonstrators chanted slogans against French President Emmanuel Macron and stepped on pictures of him strewn on the ground.
Protesters in the demonstration, organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami party, were expected to march towards the French Consulate in Karachi.
Pakistan’s parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the publication of cartoons of the prophet.
Protests have been held for days in various Muslim countries against France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad as protected under freedom of speech.
The issue has once again come to light in recent days following a gruesome beheading near Paris of a French teacher who showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
The 18-year-old Chechen refugee who carried out the attack was later shot dead by police.
The teacher, Samuel Paty, has been heralded as a symbol of France's staunch secular ideals and its rejection of religious intrusion in public spheres.
Macron and members of his government have vowed to continue supporting such caricatures as protected under freedom of expression.

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