THE HAGUE: The Dutch ambassador to Pakistan is to return to Islamabad next month after receiving a death threat last year during protests by a religious party angry over anti-Islam tweets by far-right politician Geert Wilders, Dutch media said Saturday. Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said in November that Stoios-Braken, a veteran diplomat, faced ‘threats’ in Pakistan. The Dutch prime minister had distanced his government from the cartoon contest being organised by Wilders. The Interior Ministry in October wrote a secret memo on plans to ‘target’ the Dutch ambassador by the hardline Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), media from both countries reported at the time. The TLP, founded in 2015, led protests in August calling for Pakistan to sever diplomatic relations with the Netherlands over the Wilders caricature contest.

Source: Pakistan Today January 26, 2019 14:58 UTC