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Pakistan bans import of medicines from Denmark

B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday said it has decided to impose ban on import of medicines from the countries including Denmark which published blasphemous cartoons hurting the sentiments of Muslims.

Pakistan Health Minister Muhammad Naseer Khan informed the Senate (equivalent of Rajya Sabha) that the medicine import ban would be applicable to all those countries that published blasphemous cartoons.

He termed the publication of the original cartoons in Denmark and their re-production in some other western countries as a "conspiracy" and asserted that Pakistan would not accept such "foolish acts."

Mr. Naseer Khan told the Senate that Pakistan purchased $304.5 million worth of medicines from 45 countries including Denmark during the last two years. However it was not clear what was the quantum of medical imports from countries in the controversy.

However Pakistan Foreign Office has rejected the demand for recall of the envoys of the countries in which the cartoons were published.

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