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LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar s aide Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that miscreants armed with petrol bombs attacked the Nawankot Police Station, taking 12 policemen hostage and leaving six injured.
Sharing a statement by the Lahore police, she said that owing to the attack, in which the attackers used petrol bombs and bottles of acid, Rangers and police personnel were trapped inside the police station.
The miscreants held the deputy superintendent of police hostage at gunpoint, along with 11 other policemen, and drove them to their markaz (comprising a mosque and madrassah) nearby.
Aside from attacking the police station and kidnapping officials, the miscreants also stole an oil tanker carrying 50,000 litres of petrol, she said.
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April 19, 2021
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar s aide Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that miscreants armed with petrol bombs attacked the Nawankot Police Station, taking 12 policemen hostage and leaving six injured.
Sharing a statement by the Lahore police, she said that owing to the attack, in which the attackers used petrol bombs and bottles of acid, Rangers and police personnel were trapped inside the police station.
The miscreants held the deputy superintendent of police hostage at gunpoint, along with 11 other policemen, and drove them to their markaz (comprising a mosque and madrassah) nearby.
Aside from attacking the police station and kidnapping officials, the miscreants also stole an oil tanker carrying 50,000 litres of petrol, she said. Awan, confirming the same, said that any action taken was in self-defence and to rescue the police officers taken hostage.
TLP chief urges workers to end sit-in, surrender before law
The sit-in outside Rehmatul Alamin Mosque should be called off immediately, writes detained leader Saad Rizvi
Police clashes with TLP supporters. Photo: Reuters
LAHORE:
Hafiz Muhammad Saad Rizvi, detained head of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), has urged his party workers and supporters to end their sit-in in Lahore and call off their protest scheduled for April 20.
In a letter surfaced on Sunday, Rizvi has also called upon the members of the Majlis-e-Shura (advisory council) to disperse peacefully and surrender themselves to the law enforcement agencies.
“The sit-in outside Rehmatul Alamin Mosque should be called off immediately, workers should return home peacefully and Shura members should surrender to the law,” the letter written by Rizvi in Urdu read.
13 Apr 2021
Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a radical Islamist organization in the country, launched violent mob attacks in nearly every major city there that continued into Tuesday and have reportedly resulted in the deaths of 12 of its members.
TLP has consistently organized violent mob protests since October calling for the removal of the French ambassador to Islamabad and the killing of French President Emmanuel Macron in response to the beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty in the suburbs of Paris by a teen jihadist that month. Macron, speaking at a memorial service for Paty, defended French people’s rights to create and share illustrations of Muhammad, which Paty had allegedly done with students, prompting a campaign among Muslim parents to kill him for “blasphemy.” Blasphemy against Islam is not a crime in France, and Macron insisted in his remarks, “we will not give up cartoons.” TLP is demanding a full Pakistani government rupture with Paris and retribu