ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has approached Organization of Islamic Cooperation(OIC) to lodge protest against a cartoon competition in Netherlands by ananti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Haroon has written a letter to the SecretaryGeneral of OIC asking for collective action to register a protest of OICcountries with the Dutch authorities, the Foreign Office spokesman said atthe weekly press briefing.

The opposition’s leading Freedom Party of Geert Wilders is planning to holdthe blasphemous competition in the party’s secure offices in DutchParliament.The spokesman said Pakistan would work closely with all OIC member statesto raise the issue with the Dutch government.

He said Pakistan has called in the Dutch ambassador and the EU envoy, whorepresents 28 European countries, to register the protest.“We have conveyed our condemnation of this deliberate attempt to vilifyIslam. Such incidents should not go unpunished as they intentionallyprovoke Muslim community across the world and incite intolerance andviolence,” he said.