{"id":50990,"date":"2025-10-17T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50990"},"modified":"2025-10-17T06:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:33:20","slug":"whats-behind-pakistans-latest-crackdown-on-religious-party-tlp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50990","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind Pakistan\u2019s latest crackdown on religious party TLP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Al Jazeera: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Islamabad, Pakistan \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The provincial government of Punjab, Pakistan\u2019s most populous province, is seeking federal approval to ban the far-right religious party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) amid a violent crackdown on the group\u2019s protesters this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a meeting chaired by Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the province\u2019s chief minister and niece of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, officials approved what they described as \u201chistoric\u201d and \u201cextraordinary\u201d decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief minister did not name the TLP, but a statement from her office said the ban would be sought against an \u201cextremist\u201d party, and added that those involved in inciting violence, spreading hatred and violating the law would be arrested \u201cimmediately\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe extremist party\u2019s leadership will be placed in the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act,\u201d the provincial government statement said. The Fourth Schedule is a list of proscribed individuals suspected of terrorism and sectarianism under Pakistan\u2019s antiterrorism legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement came four days after a large-scale predawn operation by law enforcement agencies on Monday to dismantle a TLP protest camp in Muridke, 60km (37 miles) from the provincial capital, Lahore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muridke made headlines earlier this year in May when India launched missiles<\/a> on the town, targeting what it claimed were sanctuaries for Pakistan-based armed groups responsible for carrying out attacks on Indian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the police operation against the TLP \u2013 a political party with a controversial and violent history \u2013 authorities said they detained more than 2,700 people, while another 2,800 were placed on an exit control list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera: Islamabad, Pakistan \u2013\u00a0The provincial government of Punjab, Pakistan\u2019s most populous province, is seeking federal approval to ban the far-right religious party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) amid a violent crackdown on the group\u2019s protesters this week. In a meeting chaired by Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the province\u2019s chief minister and niece of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, officials approved what they described as \u201chistoric\u201d and \u201cextraordinary\u201d decisions. The chief minister did not name the TLP, but a statement from her office said the ban would be sought against an \u201cextremist\u201d party, and added that those involved in inciting violence, spreading hatred and violating… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50992,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50990\/revisions\/50992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}