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Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardline religious group with a massive following across Pakistan has chocked major cities including the capital Islamabad, as its supporters took to the streets, protesting against the arrest of their chief Saad Hussain Rizvi, who was taken into custody after he threatened to storm the capital Islamabad in the coming days if their demand of expulsion of the French Ambassador was not met by the government.
Angry protesters, since the time of the arrest of the TLP chief, have been staging violent sit-ins, where angry protesters have injured over sixty police officials, while at least 4 police personnel have also been killed.
The violence has erupted in major cities of Pakistan. Radical clerics and their followers have blocked highways, train tracks and chocked inter-city connectivity.
The TLP has demanded the Imran Khan-led government to stand by its agreement, in which it committed that it would have the French ambassador in Islamabad expelled from the country over blasphemous images and the French President’s controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad.
Saad Hussain Rizvi, son of the late Khadim Hussain Rizvi, took over control of the TLP, after his father’s death. Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a well-known hardline cleric had brought the country to a complete standstill, demanding the Pakistan government to expel the French ambassador and cut all ties with the French government over what he called, their deliberate attempt to ridicule Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.
