32 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) activists and workers were detained by the police in Rawalpindi as part of a crackdown on the proscribed outfit’s election camps. The Islamabad police also uprooted the TLP’s election camps set up in various parts of the city on Sunday. Dawn quoted a police official as confirming the development. At least […]
The Lahore High Court (LHC), in its detailed order rejecting Punjab Home Department’s request to extend Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) leader Saad Hussain Rizvi’s house arrest, has said that the government wanted to keep him in custody merely on the basis of ‘fear’ and failed to provide evidence confirming its concern. The LHC had issued a […]
203SharesPakistan is stuck in a vicious cycle of bigotry that seems to have no end. The weaponisation of religion systematically carried out over the years has done undoable damage to the country by creating the hydra-headed monster of extremism. What prompted me to write this article was a sense of hopelessness and despair that arose […]