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Policemen stand guard as supporters of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) take part in a protest while blocking a street in Lahore on April 18. AFP
Security personnel walk back after having a talk with TLP supporters during a protest along a blocked street in Lahore on Sunday. AFP
Workers of the recently proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) brutally tortured a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and took him, as well as four other officials, hostage on Sunday, spokesperson for Lahore CCPO Rana Arif told
Dawn.com.
Police said the violence occurred after miscreants an apparent reference to TLP workers attacked a police station and abducted the DSP, adding that it acted only in self-defence .
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At least seven police officers taken hostage by anti-France protesters
April 18, 2021 by archyde Police officers in Pakistan, illustration –
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At least seven Pakistani police officers were taken hostage on Sunday in Lahore by anti-France protesters belonging to a radical Islamist party, a police spokesperson said.
“Members of TLP,” the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, “are holding five policemen and two members of the Ranger Corps hostage,” said Rana Arif, police spokesperson in Lahore.
Anti-France demonstration
In a tweet, Firdous Ashiq Awan, spokesperson for the government of Punjab province, said up to twelve police officers may have been kidnapped and taken to the TLP mosque in Lahore, where hundreds of anti-protesters are gathered. France.