Saturday, November 25, 2017
Pakistan: Islamist Protests Spread as Feds Try to Crack Down
Hundreds of protesters, including members of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA), carrying anti-Ahmedi placards and batons thronged the Faisal Chowk to register their protest
Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: VOA / Pakistan Today
By Web Desk | November 25, 2017
Scores injured in Pakistan as police disperse Islamist sit-in Islamabad
Islamabad -- VOA: Pakistani police using tear gas and water canon fought running battles with stone-throwing Islamist activists, as they moved to clear a sit-in by the religious hard-liners who have blocked the main routes into the capital of Islamabad for more than two weeks.
The protests have spread to other main cities, including Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.
The clashes began Saturday when police launched an operation involving about 4,000 officers to disperse around 1,000 activists from Tehreek-e-Labaik, a new hard-line Islamist political party, and break up their camp, police official Saood Tirmizi told Reuters.
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Lahore -- Pakistan Today:
Activists from various religious parties thronged the Faisal Chowk (Charing Cross Chowk) on Mall Road on Saturday afternoon on the call of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYR) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi on the social media following the government’s crackdown on the participants of the protest sit-in at Faizabad Interchange in Islamabad on the orders of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
Surprisingly, there was no police presence in the most sensitive location in Lahore which houses the Punjab Assembly, headquarters of the Lahore Police, and provincial headquarters of the country’s premier intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Hundreds of protesters, including members of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA), carrying anti-Ahmedi placards and batons thronged the Faisal Chowk to register their protest against the operation in Islamabad.
Supreme Court Advocate Rafaqat Ali Kahlo told Pakistan Today at the scene of the protest that the government should give into Islamabad protesters’ demands and should make the names of all those involved in amending the election bill public.
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