Daily Times Pakistan is staring down another home-made calamity. Known for its provocative editorials and cover images, particularly on politics and religion, French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” suffered a deadly jihadist strike on its offices in Paris back in 2015 as retribution for printing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Last September, the weekly republished these images to coincide with the start of the terror trial against those suspected of carrying out and abetting the attack. President Emmanuel Macron refused to condemn the move in the name of freedom of speech and the right to blaspheme under French law. Indeed, secularism (laïcité) remains central to the country’s national identity and is enshrined in the constitution. One month later, Macron was talking about Islamist separatism and when school teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated after showing students the Charlie Hebdo cartoons – he still refused to denounce the caricatures. All of which triggered anger across the Muslim world.