LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to outlaw the hardline Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) under the Anti- terrorism Act (ATA), 1997, sources informed Pakistan Today on Wednesday. In Rawalpindi, Lahore, and elsewhere in Punjab, major roads and highways were cleared of protestors and opened for the public. A senior Lahore police official said that 100 workers and supporters of the TLP party had been arrested so far. The minister stressed that the TLP was being banned “not on the basis of the political situation but because of their character”. The TLP wants the government to boycott French products and expel the French ambassador under an agreement signed by the government with Rizvi’s party in November.

Source: Pakistan Today April 14, 2021 09:45 UTC