The Foreign Office said on Friday it had issued a demarche to the United Kingdom’s envoy in Islamabad over threats made against Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Asim Munir during a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest outside the Pakistani consulate in Bradford. FO spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi said that UK Acting Head of Mission Matt Cannell was handed the demarche, a protest registered through diplomatic channels, over the former ruling party’s event abroad. In a video uploaded by the “UKPTIOFFICIAL” account, a woman speaker, during the event held earlier this week, can be heard making a car bomb violence threat against Field Marshal Munir, similar to the plane blast that took the life of General Zia ul Haq nearly three decades ago.
