French restaurant’s ‘no Pakistani’ rule lands chef in soup

ISLAMABAD: With coarse-grained pork sausages, blood pudding and fine wine on his menu, Philippe Lafforgue thought he had cooked up the perfect recipe for expats in Pakistan´s capital Islamabad.



But the Frenchman´s refusal to serve Pakistanis unless they were accompanied by a foreigner has landed him in the soup in this deeply conservative country.



It all started with a Twitter comment one evening in December. Cyril Almeida, a prominent Pakistani journalist, complained about a restaurant which refused reservations from anyone except "foreign-passport holders".



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.



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



"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?" Almeida told.

off with his head

This Journalist is a troublemaker . Why would he want want to patronize a restaurant that serves pork. .
The owner deliberately excludes Pakistanis so as not to offend their sensibilities

"All that I have done was to abide by Pakistani law. If I did something illegal, I would have been condemned by mullahs and visited by the police (earlier)," says Lafforgue, who was previously a chef in France and moved to Pakistan to work as a firework technician.

In the diplomatic enclave, a high-security area of the capital which houses most foreign embassies, private restaurants and clubs sell alcohol to foreigners and their Pakistani guests.

Sorry for this restaurant owner.
Soon the place will go up in flames  courtesy of religious fanatics

Cyril sounds like a trouble making Christian pakistani ...

Pork eater and blood / black pudding eater....

off with his d