Pakistan lifts ban on extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik : Rashtra News The Pakistan government has lifted the ban on the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) as a quid pro quo to the outfit calling off the recent anti-government protests that claimed the lives of over 20 people, half of them police personnel. The TLP was declared
The leader of an ultra-right Pakistan party infamous for sometimes bloody anti-blasphemy agitation has vowed a comeback after its vote share evaporated in elections last week."Khadim Rizvi had the kind of leadership and charisma that his son does not have," Arafat Mazhar, who works on blasphemy law reform, told AFP.
He added that religion had dropped down the pecking order in elections defined by "anti-establishment politics", as Pakistan battles a massive economic crisis and an erosion of trus