Pakistan Senate Slams Dutch Plan for Blasphemous Cartoon Contest
The resolution was tabled by Leader of the House Shibli Faraz and was unanimously approved by the senators.
Prime Minister Imran Khan also attended the session.
Speaking on the floor of the house, Prime Minister Khan said that his government would take up the matter in the upcoming UN General Assembly session.
Khan said that his government would also try to convince the OIC to take a stand at the international level.
"We will raise this issue in the UN. But it is a big failure of the Muslim world first," he opined.
The prime minister said that Muslims were very sentimental about the sanctity of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
In June this year, anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of right-wing Party for Freedom announced that he would hold a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
The party said the plan to hold the competition in the party’s secure offices in Dutch Parliament had been approved by the Dutch Counter-terrorism Agency NCTV.
Source: The News, Pakistan
