ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed informed on Wednesday that the head of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Saad Rizvi remains under arrest under Section 302 of the Paki
stan Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act.
Yesterday, Conflicting reports emerged on regarding the release of Saad Hus
sain Rizvi, chief of the recently proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.
And also, confirm
ed by TLP leader Faizan Ahmed, who added that Rizvi is expected to address the party’s supporters.
Furthermore,Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan has ended its sit-i
n outside Lahore’s Rehmat-ul-lil-Aalimeen mosque, a party leader announced on Tuesday evening.
The government has accepted the TLP’s demand and tabled a resolution on the expulsion of the French ambassador, TLP leader Maulana Shafiq Ameeni said.
Resolution was passed in the
National Assembly that the House condemned the publication of the sacrilegious caricatures by Charlie Hebdo on Sept 1, 2020. Despite severe reaction from the Muslim world when the magazine first published such caricatures in 2015, it again tried to hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
Police had arrested 733 people on various charges, out of which 669 have been released.
He added that the people were arrested under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.
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