Operation conducted in Lahore after police and Rangers personnel were abducted at gun point, says information minister
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry. PHOTO: PID/FILE
Hours after Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers tortured and abducted a deputy superintendent of police in Lahore, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that the government believed in negotiations but it cannot be blackmailed.
Fawad, in a statement, said that the operation was conducted in Lahore after police and Rangers personnel were abducted at gunpoint.
The minister said the state will never be blackmailed by banned armed groups,
Radio Pakistan reported.
TLP chief urges workers to end sit-in, surrender before law
The sit-in outside Rehmatul Alamin Mosque should be called off immediately, writes detained leader Saad Rizvi
Police clashes with TLP supporters. Photo: Reuters
LAHORE:
Hafiz Muhammad Saad Rizvi, detained head of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), has urged his party workers and supporters to end their sit-in in Lahore and call off their protest scheduled for April 20.
In a letter surfaced on Sunday, Rizvi has also called upon the members of the Majlis-e-Shura (advisory council) to disperse peacefully and surrender themselves to the law enforcement agencies.
“The sit-in outside Rehmatul Alamin Mosque should be called off immediately, workers should return home peacefully and Shura members should surrender to the law,” the letter written by Rizvi in Urdu read.
Workers of banned TLP kidnap, torture DSP in Lahore tribune.com.pk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribune.com.pk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Islamists clash with cops, many feared dead
Top Searches
Islamists clash with cops, many feared dead
Omer Farooq Khan / TNN / Apr 19, 2021, 01:02 IST
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail
ISLAMABAD: A number of workers of the proscribed far-right Islamist party, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), were feared dead and several others injured in Lahore in clashes with police after the protesters tortured a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and took him, as well as four other officials, hostage on Sunday.
Police said the violence occurred after the protesters attacked a police station and abducted the DSP. “Today in the early morning, ‘miscreants’ [TLP workers] attacked Nawankot police station where rangers and police officers were trapped inside the police station and DSP Nawankot kidnapped and taken in the markaz [referring to TLP headquarters],” the Punjab Police posted on Twitter.
Search committee restrained from issuing list of final candidates for JSMU vice chancellor post
Karachi
April 1, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained the search committee from making the final list of candidates for the post of Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) vice chancellor (VC) till further orders.
The interim order came on a petition filed by Dr Mohammad Umar Farooq challenging the formation of the search committee in absence of a chairman and shortlisting the candidates for JSMU VC.
The petitioner submitted that he had applied for the post with all the required professional documents. He submitted that the search committee meeting was to be convened under its chairman on March 16; however, the meeting was convened without the chairman of the committee who is stated to be out of country.