‘No leniency’: Pakistani NSA warns of action against TLP as Islamists march in Islamabad

Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf on Thursday, October 28, stated the banned Islamist organization Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) had “crossed the purple line and exhausted the country’s patience”.

Thousands of individuals of the TLP are protesting at the streets of Pakistan with numerous demands, along with the discharge in their imprisoned chief Saad Rizvi, a ban on French goods, and the expulsion of the French Ambassador to Pakistan. This is TLP’s 1/3 national protest for the reason that 2017 over caricatures which are taken into consideration blasphemous via way of means of Muslims posted in a French magazine.

“They have martyred policemen, destroyed public property, and maintain to purpose big public disruption. Law will take its direction for every one in every of them and terrorists may be dealt with like terrorists and not using a leniency,” Moeed Yusuf tweeted.

“For all people and companies who suppose they could project the writ of the Pakistani country, do now no longer check the proposition. As the simple precept of countrywide security, the country will in no way shrink back from shielding every and each citizen from any shape of violence, he tweeted, adding “There may be NO armed militias of any type in our country.”

TLP’s founder past due Khadim Rizvi’s son Saad Rizvi become detained via way of means of the Punjab authorities in April final below the renovation of ‘public order’ (MPO) following the party’s protest towards the blasphemous caricatures.

The dying toll withinside the protests has risen to 18 now — with eleven TLP employees and seven policemen loss of life because the clashes broke out among the banned outfit and police over every week ago. A couple of days ago, the authorities had freed 350 TLP activists to placate the novel organization.

The clashes among the armed TLP activists and police began out at Sadhoke, a few 50 km from Lahore, whilst hundreds of the TLP protesters who have been tenting among Muridke and Gujranwala alongside the GT Road for the final 3 days began out the march in the direction of Islamabad upon getting a go-beforehand from their leadership.