At least 2 killed, 40 injured in Pakistan in violent Islamist protests 2 minutes read
(Update 1: adds casualties)
Islamabad, Apr 13 (EFE).- At least two people were killed and over 40 injured – nearly all of them police officers – in Pakistan on Tuesday, the second consecutive day of violent protests over the arrest of an Islamist leader who called for the expulsion of the French ambassador, officials said.
“One (police) constable Muhammed Afzal was martyred today and 40 policemen got injured so far,” Lahore police spokesperson Rana Arif told EFE, with the city in western Punjab province witnessing the worst clashes.
He added that a protester of the Islamist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party, which had called the protests over the arrest of its leader Saad Rizvi, had also been killed.
Sadiq Khan Demands Mail-in Voting for London Mayoral Election
28 Feb 2021
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the expansion of postal voting in the upcoming local elections, claiming that the “disproportionate” effect of the Chinese coronavirus on ethnic minorities and the elderly will reduce voter turnout.
Mr Khan has been serving as the unelected Mayor of London for nearly a whole extra year after the regular elections were cancelled in March of 2020 during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter to Constitution Minister Chloe Smith, Khan demanded that the government fund the distribution of postal voting forms to every household in the areas having elections this May.