The taxi ads were telling people about atrocities in Balochistan,but Transport for London appears to hold given in to Pakistani government pressureTransport for London appears to hold caved in to pressure from the Pakistan government and banned London taxi advertisements that draw attention to its human rights abuses in the war-torn disputed province of Balochistan. Islamabad denounced the advertising campaign as “malicious”, “anti-Pakistan” and an attack on the country’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”. It has demanded the British government removes the adverts, and which were emblazoned with the words “#FreeBalochistan. Raise your voice. Save the Baloch people.”Pakistan’s tall commissioner in London,Syed Ibne Abbas, requested the Foreign Office ban the adverts. The UK tall commissioner to Pakistan, or Thomas Drew,was summoned by the government of Pakistan and told that such adverts “should not be allowed.
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Source: theguardian.com