LAHORE – PTI government faces the first long March and the capitalIslamabad lock down challenge from the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).

TLP has announced to stage a “decisive march” from Lahore to Islamabad onWednesday against the blasphemous cartoon competition in the Netherlands.

The party, that occupied on the streets of the federal capital city foraround three weeks last year, said it will stay on the streets until eitherthe publication of blasphemous cartoons in the Netherlands comes to an endor the govt immediately cuts diplomatic ties with the Dutch.

TLP held a meeting in Lahore on Sunday and came up with its line of actionand demands; the religiopolitical faction urged the Imran Khan-ledgovernment to not only discontinue diplomatic and commercial relations withthe Netherlands but also demand from other Islamic countries to do the same.

The political entity also called for a strict action against the US sayingthe competition’s judge is an American national and revealed that the marchwould begin from Data Darbar Lahore.

The blasphemous cartoon contest, scheduled for November, is being organisedin the Netherlands by Geert Wilders — a right-wing anti-Islam lawmaker.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, however, has distanced his government fromthe controversial contest, saying: “Wilders is not a member of thegovernment. The competition is not a government initiative.”