Pakistan registered a strong protest against the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden by summoning the Swedish charge’d affairs in Islamabad on Wednesday.
The Swedish mission head to Pakistan was summoned by the Foreign Office.
Acting Foreign Secretary Cyrus Qazi informed the charge’d affairs of Pakistan’s serious concern over the repeated incidents of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden.
The diplomat was told that such incidents were fomenting Islamophobia worldwide and causing heartache to billions of Muslims. Such incidents under the guise of freedom of expression are not acceptable, the acting foreign secretary said.
The protest from Pakistan come follows similar diplomatic actions by other Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia after an Iraqi refugee desecrated the Holy Quran on the first day of Eidul Azha in Stockholms with court permission.
The heads of state of Muslim countries, including Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Senegal and Morocco, condemned the vile act.
Morocco withdrew its ambassador from Sweden.
The European Union condemned the desecration of the holy book in a statement last week.
The organization of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of over 50 Muslim nations, called for collective measures to prevent acts of desecration to the Quran and said that international law should be used to stop religious hatred after the holy book was burned in a protest in Sweden.
