The  agency claims it has received a total of 160,000 complaints in three years, with Lahore city at the top followed Karachi and Islamabad.

Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhari says at a time of rising Islamophobia and populism, the international community must exhibit a common resolve to fight xenophobia, intolerance, and incitement to violence based on religion or belief and work together to strengthen peaceful co-existence.

The Official figures show that 5, 112 new cases of virus have emerged after tests of 49, 099 people across the country during the same period.

Prime Minister Imran Khan says his government is taking steps to uplift the backward and poor areas of Pakistan, including South Punjab, merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and interior Sindh.

PTI member Amjad Khan moved the resolution which condemned the blasphemous acts committed by a French magazine and French president for promoting such acts.

Prime Minister Imran Khan says there will be no difference even if French ambassador is sent back to France, vowing to run a global campaign against blasphemy.

PM says political and religious parties are misusing Islam, asking the audience to tell him whether the government not suffered when blasphemy was committed.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has also demanded an apology from the extremist right politicians in the west over hut to 1.3b Muslims across the world.

TLP workers blocked roads, burnt tyres and jammed traffic in the country's major cities including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan and Karachi to condemn detention of their leader Maulana Saad Hussain Rizvi.