Public resentment begins to seep out in Pakistan over republication of a blasphemous cartoon against last Muslim Prophet (peace be upon him) by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
In November 2011, dozens were killed in violent protests with attacks on Western interests and state owned entities across Pakistan.
The Magazine was the target of a deadly revenge attack on January 7, 2015 for publishing same cartoon. Twelve people, including some of France’s most famous cartoonists, were killed by two brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in a gun rampage at the Magazine’s offices in Paris. Among the dead included Jean Cabut who was one of the cartoonist who had drawn blasphemous cartoon and the editor-in-chief, Stephane Charbonnier, who had lived under police protection for years.
Republication has been timed with the trial of 14 people accused of helping the two Islamist attackers to carry out their gun attack for publishing same cartoon in its magazine in 2011. The assailants were killed by the security forces. The latest Charlie Hebdo cover shows a dozen of blasphemous sketches first published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 — and then reprinted by the French weekly in 2006
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