By IRNA
Islamabad : Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the Dutch ambassador in Islamabad to the Foreign Ministry and a demarche was made over an anti-Qur’an film, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said at his weekly news briefing that Pakistan has also raised the issue in Brussels, Vatican and The Hague, urging European countries to take action as they had earlier taken in cases involving sensitivity of other communities.
He said Pakistan is in touch with the Islamic countries on the issue of anti-Qur’an film and blasphemous Danish cartoons and the matter would be on the agenda of the forthcoming OIC summit in Senegal.
He said Wilders’ anti-Qur’an film reflects his biased, bigoted thinking. It has nothing to do with the right of freedom of expression.
He said that distinction must be drawn between freedom of expression and license to insult other communities.
The spokesman cautioned that such irresponsible acts jeopardize the common endeavors for enhancing trans-civilization understanding and cooperation and encourage clash of civilization.
Sadiq pointed out that freedom of expression necessitates responsibility of action. Any remarks which target a specific group of people on the basis of religion, caste or creed and cause offense to other countries is abuse of the press freedom.
He said the news of the movie has generated intense reaction amongst Muslims across the world.
He said blasphemous acts like this film and cartoons tantamount to propagating politics of hate and promoting xenophobia in Europe which cannot be justified on any pretext.
He told a questioner that no decision has yet been made as to who will lead Pakistan’s delegation at the OIC summit but added that Foreign Minister Inamul Haq would be attending the moot.