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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan openly criticized French President Emmanuel Macron over his controversial remarks about Islam. Khan also agreed to demands of a radical Islamist party to downgrade ties with the global powerhouse.

Now, in a retaliatory move, France has reportedly decided against upgrading the Mirage III and Mirage 5 fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force. There was been no official statement as of now from France.

An ambassador in Paris has told the Indian day by day Hindustan Times that Pakistan’s solicitation to update contender jets has been declined. As indicated by the HT report, a comparative solicitation for redesigning the French-Italian air guard framework has likewise been denied.

Pakistan had mentioned redesigning its Agosta 90B class submarines with air-autonomous impetus (AIP) frameworks that would permit them to remain submerged for more yet the negotiator said it has additionally been dismissed by France.

Pakistan Air Force has around 150 Mirage warrior jets produced by the French firm Dassault Aviation and its naval force has three Agosta 90B submarines: Khalid, Saad, and Hamza. France’s choice to not overhaul the warrior planes and submarines will hit the Pakistan protection powers hard and the public authority harder, which planned to consent to the requests of boycotting French merchandise. Will Pakistan presently blacklist the French products?

Dreading the hole of specialized data, France has told Qatar, one of the nations that purchased the Rafale contenders, not to permit Pakistan-cause experts to work with the plane as Rafale jets have been conveyed in the bleeding edge by India in the midst of rising pressures with both China and Pakistan. France has loaned steady help to India in the midst of the outskirt stalemate.

Sources disclosed to HT that France’s choice has come in light of Imran Khan’s noisy analysis of Macron’s guard of the option to ridicule religion following the homicide of a French teacher.

Khan, alongside the heads of other Muslim nations, had settled on decisions for joining against what they call the developing Islamophobia in the non-Muslim nations. The nation had seen a turmoil against France, where extreme-right strict ideological group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) challenged Macron and requested the ejection of the French minister and a blacklist of French products.

The gathering lifted the dissent after the public authority consented to the requests, notwithstanding, the amount of these will be executed is yet to be seen.

Following the decapitation of an instructor by an 18-year-old for demonstrating the exaggeration of Prophet Mohammad to understudies, France had seen more comparable occurrences, bringing about Macron calling to battle the “Islamists”.