French Embassy asks residents to go away Pakistan over anti-France protests

Today, the French embassy in Pakistan suggested all French residents and firms within the nation to quickly go away Pakistan which is observing a violent civil struggle. This transfer comes within the wake of violent anti-France Islamist protests led by the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) affecting a number of elements of the nation.
“Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French companies are advised to temporarily leave the country,” the embassy wrote in an e mail to French residents.
“The departures will be carried out by existing commercial airlines,” the embassy added.
In an announcement to the Pakistani publication Dawn, the French embassy’s press attaché Veronique Wagner stated, “we can confirm that we have sent a precautionary note to all our citizens in Pakistan advising them to temporarily leave the country if possible due to the recent protests that have caused graver security threats and put its citizens at risk.”
Anti-French sentiment has been on the rise in Pakistan ever since French President Emmanuel Macron’s protection of Free Speech and Expression after 45-year previous Samuel Paty’s barbaric Islamist beheading in October final 12 months. President Macron had defended the precise of magazines to publish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, a transfer which earned him the ire of Muslims all over the world, particularly in Pakistan.
Just yesterday, the Pakistani Government made the choice to ban TLP, the belligerent Islamist group which is behind the violent protests in Pakistan, and has demanded the expulsion of the French ambassador in Pakistan.
On Monday, the chief of TLP, Saad Rizvi was detained, seemingly forward of his April twentieth deadline for the Pakistan authorities to fulfill the calls for put forth by TLP. This detention was the catalyst behind the three days of violent protests in Pakistan which have left two policemen useless, with over 370 injured.
The TLP has a infamous historical past of unleashing Islamist violence and holding days-long zealous Islamist protests in protection of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy regulation, which has the truth is led to the persecution of minorities in Pakistan.
However, successive governments in Pakistan have largely ignored this looming specter of extremist Islamist violence, fearing that any main confrontation with these hardline Islamist teams will set off a reprisal all throughout Pakistan within the type of hundreds of Islamists popping out into within the streets, probably resulting in extra violence.
“We are in favour of protecting the Prophet’s honour, but the demand which they are seeking could have portrayed Pakistan as a radical nation worldwide,” stated Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in a information convention yesterday.
On Twitter, the hashtag #FrenchDepartPakistan was trended on Thursday, amassing over 42,000 tweets on the time of publication.
In September 2020, weeks after Charlie Hebdo re-published its Prophet Muhammad caricatures, its former workplaces in Paris had been attacked by a Pakistani man who stabbed two individuals.
On verge of a significant civil battle?
Over the previous three days, a minimum of half a dozen individuals together with police officers have been killed and scores of individuals injured after violent Islamist protests broke out in several elements of Pakistan towards the detention of TLP chief Saad Hussain Rizvi.
As per experiences, the arrest of Saad Hussain Rizvi got here within the backdrop of TLP’s ultimatum to the Imran Khan authorities to satisfy its 4 calls for earlier than the deadline of April 20. The calls for had been initially made in November final 12 months, following the beheading of 46-year-old Samuel Paty by a teenage Jihadi terrorist in France and the next criticism of Islamists by French President Emmanuel Macron. TLP additionally took offense to the show of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in public in a single metropolis in France.
Several movies depicting violent barbarism have emerged from Pakistan over the previous three days, providing the world an perception into the brutality of the TLP Islamists.
You received’t see this on Pakistani media however that’s how Constable Afzal misplaced his life. Sub ki zubano ko taalay lag gayay hain. pic.twitter.com/k1DZz8X60J— Nighat Dad (@nighatdad) April 13, 2021
So you individuals name it ” Peaceful protests ” ?#TLPNationWideProtest pic.twitter.com/ahS4zwMJDq— Ali Asghar Wattoo° (@Ali1Wattoo) April 13, 2021
Sometimes police officers are the complainant and the sufferer to crime.#TLPProtest #TLPNationWideProtest #یہ_غداری_پڑے_گی_بھاری pic.twitter.com/ZmJvuToaQo— Subhan Ahmed (@SubhanAhmed82) April 12, 2021
Somes lovers of the prophet peaceable letting it out on a blasphemous automotive. #TLPNationWideProtest #TLPProtest pic.twitter.com/Ldl8i4PX4w— Harris Sultan (@TheHarrisSultan) April 13, 2021
راستے کافر ، گاڑیاں گستاخ ، پولیس مرتد ، عوام غافل ، حکومت یہودی ، لاٹھی مومن ، پتھر مسلمان ، تشدد صاحب ایمان ، ملا ختم نبوت کا پاسبان۔۔۔لبیک۔ 😐#فیض_آباد_کا_فیض_بھگتو#TLPNationWideProtest#سفیرنکالوسعدرضوی_کورہاکرو#WeStandWithSaadRizvi #MashalKhan pic.twitter.com/bod1MSt6Hk— Abdul Ghaffar. (@AbdulGJutt) April 13, 2021
TLP Molvis are attempting to get Jannat ul Firdus…#TLPGoons pic.twitter.com/FIGwiuftmY— Ahsan Sheikh (@TheAhsanSheikh) April 13, 2021
#TLPGoons can’t be allowed to problem the writ of the state and get away with it. pic.twitter.com/7Ka3xI17l3— Major Adil Raja (R) (@soldierspeaks) April 13, 2021
لبیک۔ #فیض_آباد_کا_فیض_بھگتو#TLPNationWideProtest#سفیرنکالوسعدرضوی_کورہاکرو#WeStandWithSaadRizvi #RememberingMashalKhan pic.twitter.com/GZioWvc6Kh— Abdul Ghaffar. (@AbdulGJutt) April 13, 2021
The state of affairs is uncontrolled in Pakistan. When the nation turns into below the management of the military, such conditions come up in that nation.@TahaSSiddiqui @kakar_harsha @TarekFatah @AartiTikoo @arifaajakia @anis_farooqui @iamrana @Iyervval @amritabhinder pic.twitter.com/Q3O3ezWXJi— Anita Chauhan (@anita_chauhan80) April 14, 2021