{"id":71023,"date":"2020-11-17T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71023"},"modified":"2020-11-19T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:23:40","slug":"anti-france-protesters-block-highway-in-pakistani-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71023-anti-france-protesters-block-highway-in-pakistani-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-France protesters block highway in Pakistani capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-17_20-33-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-17_20-33-58.jpg 750w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-17_20-33-58-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-17_20-33-58-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 1,000 protesters have blocked a major highway in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador and end of diplomatic ties with the European country over perceived Islamophobia.<br>Protesters from the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardline religious political party that has campaigned on the issue of curbing blasphemy against Islam, blocked the city\u2019s main Faizabad interchange on Monday, a day after violent clashes with the police.<br>Riot police were deployed to guard government buildings across the capital, with authorities using shipping containers to block important roads around the sit-in site.<br>Mobile phone services remained blocked for a second straight day across most of the city, as authorities attempted to disrupt the protesters\u2019 ability to organise. Most Pakistani news media did not cover the protest.<br>The TLP, led by religious leader Khadim Husain Rizvi, has often agitated against the Pakistani government on issues around blasphemy, a sensitive topic in the South Asian country, where the crime carries a potential death sentence.<br>Monday\u2019s protest, which began a day earlier, was aimed against the government of French President Emmanuel Macron, who made remarks about Islam and \u201cblasphemy\u201d in recent months that have sparked outrage in several Muslim-majority countries, including Pakistan, Turkey and countries across the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 protesters have blocked a major highway in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador and end of diplomatic ties with the European country over perceived Islamophobia.Protesters from the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardline religious political party that has campaigned on the issue of curbing blasphemy against Islam, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,13],"tags":[1983,2029],"class_list":["post-71023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-anti-france","tag-pakistani-capital"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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