Acting like an extremist network, the Tehrik Labbaik Pakistan used violence to enforce a countrywide gridlock on Monday and partly on Tuesday. TLP’s baton-wielding workers stopped traffic at numerous points on the National Highway and the GT Road while roads within the provinces were also blocked. In the 2018 elections the extremist network nominated its candidates in key constituencies to wean away religious voters from the PML(N). - Advertisement -In 2018 the PTI government released Asia Bibi, who had been accused of blasphemy, on the Supreme Court’s orders. Instead the government agreed to hold talks with the TLP and sought two months to get Parliament’s approval.

Source: Pakistan Today April 13, 2021 16:39 UTC