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Police in Pakistan, have arrested over 100 members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), including its Chief, who had given a protest call for tomorrow against the acquittal of a Christian woman.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said in a tweet that police have taken into custody TLP leaders and activists from Lahore for refusing to defer the protest call. He said, the move will help safeguard public life, property and order in Pakistan.
Last month, TLP had disrupted life across the country by staging widespread protests following the woman’s acquittal in a blasphemy case by the apex court.
Meanwhile Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST) and its allied parties have distanced themselves from Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) call for countrywide protest on Nov 25 and said they were never part of TLP.
Speaking at a hurriedly-called press conference at the local press club on Saturday, Khalid Hassan Attari, Imran Soharwardi, Allama Jawad Raza Barkati, Allama Muharram Din Qadri and others said that they condemned hate speeches by TLP head Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
They demanded immediate release of activists of Tanzeemat-i-Ahle Sunnat, a conglomerate of various religious parties including Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, Darul Uloom Ahsanul Barkat, Dargah Syedna Sakhi Abdul Wahab Shah Jilani Trust and Paigham-i-Mustafa.
They called for stopping crackdown against their parties and said that around six activists of PST and other parties had been arrested by Rangers and police since Friday night soon after the arrest of TLP chief.