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Imran Khan relents on TLP, removes extremist group from list of banned outfits

At least 21 people, including 10 policemen have lost their lives during fierce confrontation between the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan workers and law enforcement authorities in recent days

Pakistan releases 350 activists of banned outfit TLP; cases against them to be withdrawn by Wednesday

The development comes after Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan workers been holding violent protests across the nation, against the government for not releasing their party chief Saad Hussain Rizvi

Pakistan govt gives in to banned extremist group's demands, brings resolution to expel French envoy

The expulsion of the French ambassador is one of the main four demands of the radical Islamist party TLP, which was banned last week after its members staged violent anti-France protests across the country

Anti-France protests in Pakistan: At least 7 police officers and rangers taken hostage by Islamist party supporters

Rioting has rocked the country since Monday, when the leader of the now-banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan was detained in Lahore after calling for the expulsion of the French ambassador

Pakistan anti-France protests: TLP’s emergence is a result of Imran Khan govt's inexcusable policies

The TLP was able to mobilise Punjabi youth in great numbers because the ground was fertile for the propagation of right-wing extremist ideas

France urges citizens to leave Pakistan as violent stirs hit country; no threat, insists interior minister

Anti-French sentiment has been simmering for months in Pakistan since President Emmanuel Macron expressed support for a satirical magazine's right to republish cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed

Tehreek-i-Labaik Pakistan lifts partial Islamabad siege after govt talks, seeks expulsion of French ambassador

The group, headed by firebrand cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, began demonstrating in Pakistan's national capital to denounce the publication of Prophet Mohammad's cartoons in a French magazine

Pakistan police arrests TLP chief, over 100 party members for calling for protests against Asia Bibi's acquittal

Last month, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) disrupted daily life across Pakistan by staging widespread protests following Bibi's acquittal in a blasphemy case by the apex court.

Asylum application filed for Asia Bibi in Netherlands a day after Pakistan dispels rumours of her leaving country

Asia's lawyer, Saif-ul-Mulook, who himself fled from Pakistan to the Netherlands, earlier this week told CNN that the application, filed for Asia, her husband and their two children, has been submitted to the authorities. The lawyer had fled to the European nation following threats to his life.

Pakistan authorities say reports of Asia Bibi leaving Pakistan 'fake news'; Information minister urges media to 'act responsibly'

Pakistani authorities on Thursday rejected as "fake news" reports that Asia Bibi who was released from a jail a week after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction and death sentence for blasphemy has left for the Netherlands