Tehreek-e-Labaik blames the minister, Zahid Hamid, for changes to an electoral oath that it says amounts to blasphemy. Clashes immediately broke out between members of Tehreek-e-Labaik, a hard-line Islamist party, and some 4,000 police sent to break up the protest camp, police official Saood Tirmizi told Reuters. “Police used water cannons initially and now are firing tear gas shells at the protesters,” Tirmizi told Reuters. Tehreek-e-Labaik blames the minister, Zahid Hamid, for changes to an electoral oath that it says amounts to blasphemy. The government had tried to negotiate an end to the sit-in, fearing violence during a crackdown.

Source: Mint November 25, 2017 05:03 UTC