{"id":76559,"date":"2018-08-28T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76559"},"modified":"2018-08-28T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:00:52","slug":"malik-demanded-govt-to-raise-issue-of-anti-islam-cartoon-contest-in-un-oic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76559","title":{"rendered":"Malik demanded govt to raise issue of anti-Islam cartoon contest in UN, OIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"background: #FCFCFC; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\">\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"background: #FCFCFC; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Islamabad, Aug. 28 (TNS): Senator Rehman Malik on Tuesday strongly condemned an anti-Islam cartoon contest planned by a far-right Dutch politician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"background: #FCFCFC; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Pakistan&#8217;s senate has unanimously passed a resolution condemning anto-Islam drive &#8211; one of the first actions taken by the assembly since last month&#8217;s\u00a0general election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"background: #FCFCFC; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Senator Rehman Malik said this while addressing on the floor of the upper house of parliament and demanded the government to formally abandon diplomatic and trade ties with Neitherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"background: #FCFCFC; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Malik \u00a0demanded the government to take the issue to the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #FCFCFC; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">&#8220;Everyone must understand the pain caused to Muslims by such blasphemous activities,&#8221; said Malik.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #FCFCFC; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">He also demanded the government to raise the matter in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and get the countries there to come up with a collective policy that could then be brought up at international forums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: #FCFCFC; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Last week, Pakistan foreign office summoned the Dutch ambassador to lodge a protest against the blasphemous competition, expressing its &#8220;deep concern\u00a0at this deliberate and malicious attempt to defame Islam&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Aug. 28 (TNS): Senator Rehman Malik on Tuesday strongly condemned an anti-Islam cartoon contest planned by a far-right Dutch politician. 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