Activists participated within the demonstrations, sparked by the burning of the Quran outdoors a Stockholm mosque final week.

Video footage captured protesters burning Swedish flags and dragging effigies by way of the streets as they marched, carrying banners and placards denouncing the act. A protester expressed the anguish attributable to the desecration, stating, “The way they desecrated it, burnt it, it was like setting fire to our hearts, our chests, respect and everything beyond that for us, they have burnt those,” Ruptly reported.

The demonstrators demanded severing diplomatic relations with Sweden and reducing all ties with the nation. Another protester voiced their calls for, stating, “We demand that the Swedish ambassador be expelled from Pakistan, the Pakistani ambassador in Sweden should be called back, all the associations we have with them, they all should be boycotted, and the diplomatic relationships should be terminated with them.”

In response to the incident, the Pakistani Parliament handed a decision urging Sweden to take applicable motion towards the perpetrator, whereas the Pakistani authorities designated the day as “Yaum-i-Taqaddus-i-Quran” to sentence the incident. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif known as on the nation to register their protest, and varied teams, together with political events and attorneys, have been demonstrating all through the week in Pakistan.

On June 29, a 37-year-old particular person named Salwan Momika, who had migrated from Iraq to Sweden, burned pages of the Quran outdoors a mosque in Stockholm on the primary day of Eid al-Adha. The act sparked widespread outrage amongst Muslims worldwide and drew condemnation from Pope Francis. The Pakistani authorities, a number of Muslim states, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the European Union, and the Swedish authorities additionally strongly condemned the incident.

According to reviews, Momika, who reportedly fled Iraq for Sweden, justified his actions as being about democracy, freedom of speech.