The Globe and Mail Babar Dogar and Munir Ahmed LAHORE, Pakistan Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 police a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country’s interior minister said Monday.
Supporters of the hard-line Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party attacked a police station near their rallying point Sunday and took the police officers hostage. The group is protesting the arrest of their leader, Saad Rizvi, and pressuring Prime Minister Imran Khan to expel France’s ambassador over the publication in France of controversial cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.