باكستان: مطعم فرنسي يمنع دخول الباكستانيين دون مرافقة الأجانب

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أثارت السياسة التي أعلن عنها أحد المطاعم الفرنسية في "باكستان"، والتي تقتضي منع المواطنين المحليين من التردد على المطعم دون مرافقة حاملي جوازات السفر الأجنبية - حالة من الغضب؛ حيث استكر المواطنون السياسة التمييزية ضد المواطنين أصحاب الأرض.

وجدير بالذكر أن المطعم منذ تأسيسه في أكتوبر الماضي وهو يثير المشكلات؛ فإضافة إلى منع المواطنين المحليين كان المطعم يقدم لحوم الخنزير والخمور؛ مما دفع الشرطة لمداهمته واعتقال اثنين من العاملين ومصادرة الخمور؛ حيث يُمنع بيع الخمور إلا بترخيص لما يتبع للنصارى والهندوس؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Apartheid Restaurant Sparks Pakistanis Ire

A French restaurant in Pakistan has come under fire as imposing an apartheid policy after banning native Pakistanis unless they are accompanied by “foreign-passport holders”.

“It is so obviously offensive and obnoxious... why should a private individual establish a club or an establishment which blocks out the very people of the country it is operating in?” Cyril Almeida, a prominent Pakistani journalist, who was denied service inside the restaurant, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday, January 9.

Established in October, “La Maison” is a small French bistro tucked away on the ground floor of Lafforgue's house in a posh, tree-lined area in the heart of the capital.

The menu of the restaurant includes food items deemed as unlawful or haram for Muslims such as coarse-grained pork sausages, blood pudding and wine.

Controversy surrounding the restaurant started on December when Almeida complained about the restaurant which refused reservations from anyone except “foreign-passport holders”.

After being refused a table, Almeida turned to social media, launching a campaign with the hashtag “NoToApartheid.”

Launching a social media campaign, he published the address of "La Maison” online, contacted the police, the ministry of the interior and the local member of parliament.

Checking the issue, two senior police officials tried to book a table at the decorated restaurant, receiving the same no answer like Almeida.

Later on, police raided the restaurant, shut it down and arrested two local staff and confiscated some 300 bottles of wine and beer.

Some compared the policy to the kind of discriminatory attitudes seen during the colonial era when Pakistan was still part of British-ruled India.

The sale and production of liquor is officially banned in Pakistan, where Muslims make up more than 95 percent of the 170-million population.

However, licenses are issued to certain hotels and wine shops to sell liquor to minorities, mostly Christians and Hindus.