IN PICS: ‘Kick Out French Ambassador’ Protests Erupt In Pakistan Against Charlie Hebdo Reprinting Prophet Muhammad Cartoons

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Supporters of hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan carry placards and shout slogans during a protest against the reprinting cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Rawalpindi on September 4, 2020. - (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

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Charlie Hebdo has been the target of two terrorist attacks, in 2011 and 2015. Both are said to be in response to controversial the Muhammad cartoons that it published. In the second attack, 12 people were killed - including publishing director Charb and several other prominent cartoonists. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)

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Satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, reprinted the controversial caricatures this week to mark the start of the trial of the alleged accomplices in the attack. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

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In 2007, a French court had rejected accusations leveled by Islamic groups that the publication incited hatred against Muslims. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

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A large gathering of protesters who are members of the hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan carry placards and shout slogans during a protest. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

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Supporters of hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan carry placards that read ‘Kick Out The French Ambassador’ and shout slogans. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

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Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardline religious political party, help their party leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi (C in the wheelchair) to step down from a stage for prayers during a protest against the reprinting of satirical sketches of the Prophet Mohammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

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Activists of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan march during a protest against the reprinting of satirical sketches of the Prophet Mohammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

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French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a jihadist attack in 2015, said on September 4 that its latest edition reprinting controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed had sold out in just one day. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

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Activists of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan walk on a French national flag during a protest against the reprinting of satirical sketches of the Prophet Mohammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

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Supporters of hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan carry placards and shout slogans during a protest against the reprinting cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Rawalpindi on September 4, 2020. - (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

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