Pakistan s National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf has warned the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters of being mindful of the fact that the country will not tolerate or allow.
Pakistans National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf has warned the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters of being mindful of the fact that the country will not tolerate or allow presence of any armed militia.Yusuf stated that .
The party would be banned under anti-terrorism legislation, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said.
Five people have so far been killed in the unrest, including two police officers.
Security forces smashed up sit-ins by TLP activists before dawn in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, laying into protesters with truncheons and firing tear gas.
Police cleared a blocked road into the capital Islamabad, but officials said they were still trying to “bring the situation under control” in Lahore.
TLP leader Saad Rivzi was arrested on Monday after threatening to bring his supporters onto the streets to force the expulsion of the French ambassador over the publication in France of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. He argues that Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to do this by April 20 as part of a truce agreed with the TLP in February, but Mr Khan says the agreement was merely that parliament would debate the measure.
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