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Pakistan reaches deal with banned TLP; frees hundreds of supporters amid clashes

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Hundreds of sympathizers of a banned Islamist party were released in Pakistan after the Imran Khan- led government struck a deal with Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) to end the violent clashes that have redounded in the death of seven bobbies, multiple news agencies have reported. The group has been protesting against the Pakistan government for months, demanding the release of its party principal Saad Rizvi who was arrested in April this time.

TLP is the same group that commanded the majoranti-France demurrers after President Emmanuel Macron defended the right of a sarcastic magazine to republish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed  Some 860 TLP workers were freed on Tuesday. They were detained under section 3 of MPO ( conservation of public order). No case was registered against them,” the Punjab Home Department said in a statement, according to news agency PTI. Other detainees from the kick who have first information reports (FIRs) registered against them would have to gain bail from courts, the report further said.

Last week, thousands of TLP sympathizers began a march from the eastern megacity of Lahore to capital Islamabad. The protesters reached about one-third of the way before they called it off. Still, the demurrers are still continuing with protesters carrying a sit- heft at premises in the megacity of Wazirabad. The demonstrators say that they won’t withdraw their agitation until the Pakistan government fulfills 50 per cent of the terms of their agreement In case any farther apprehensions of the party’s workers or leaders are made, the agreement with the government will stand cancelled,” said Tehreek-e-Labbaik’s Mufti Muneeb Rehman, advising the Pakistan government, PTIreported.However, it’ll have to face a further forceful kick movement,” Muneeb also said, “ If the government appearsnon-serious with regard to the agreement Details regarding the deal between the group and the Pakistan government aren’t known yet. The government delegation that negotiated with the banned organisation included foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser, minister of state for administrative affairs Ali Mohammad Khan and other elderly ministers
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