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India-Pakistan

Three Pakistani police killed in clashes with banned Islamists

2021-10-23

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three Pak police were killed in festivities on Friday with demonstrators from a banned Islamist group who rallied to demand the release of their leader and the expulsion of the French ambassador over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.The officers were hit by a vehicle which drove at police as thousands of activists from the Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistain (TLP) movement gathered in the eastern city of Lahore for a march on the capital Islamabad.

Police fired teargas after TLP supporters attacked a security checkpoint, during festivities across the city, police front man Arif Rana said.

"They had assured us that they would remain peaceful but they turned ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful," he said.

TLP media coordinator Saddam Bukhari said police attacked a peaceful rally but Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, who confirmed the deaths of the officers, condemned the demonstrators. "No one can be allowed to take the law into their own hands," he said.

The protests, over a series of caricatures published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...

A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
last year, follow serious festivities in April in which at least five police and three activists were killed and hundreds maimed.

Following the April festivities in which TLP activists blocked highways, railways and access routes to cities and battled police, the authorities arrested their leader, Saad Hussain Rizvi and banned the group.

Rizvi has been in detention since his arrest and the government has designated TLP as a terrorist movement.

Authorities had been trying to negotiate with the group, which rallied its supporters outside its Lahore headquarters for the last two days, but the negotiations broke down and the group called on supporters from around Pakistain to converge on the capital Islamabad.

The main arteries to and from Lahore and Islamabad were blocked with shipping containers to prevent demonstrators entering the city. The diplomatic enclave in Islamabad, where most foreign embassies are located, was also blocked off.

Nearly 1,000 police were maimed in the April festivities, which were halted only after government announced a parliamentary vote on expelling the French ambassador over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad by the Gay Paree-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The magazine first published the cartoons in 2006, outraging millions of Moslems who considered them deeply insulting. It republished them last year to mark the opening of a trial over a deadly attack on the magazine by Islamist Lions of Islam in 2015.

Courtesy of badanov. Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Three kops die in northeast Pakistan

[REGNUM] At least three police officers were killed in clashes with rioters in the Pakistani city of Lahore in the northeastern Punjab province, Dawn newspaper reported Oct. 22, citing city police.

Several more law enforcement officers were injured. Some of them were hospitalized. In addition, 500 protesters were injured during the confrontation. At least 15 demonstrators are in serious condition.

Several thousand supporters of the banned radical Islamic organization Tehreek-e-Lubbike Pakistan (TLP) gathered at a protest in different districts of Lahore. They were on their way to Islamabad to take part in an anti-government march.

The police tried to block the procession, but they started pelting them with sticks and stones, as well as Molotov cocktails. The police used tear gas to disperse the protesters. Chief Minister of Punjab Usman Buzdar expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims. In addition, he ordered strict measures to be taken against the offenders who provoked the riots.

Deutsche Welle adds background:

TLP has a long history of elaborate protests and sit-ins to try and get successive governments to give in to their demands. Six coppers were killed in April when the TLP staged days of rallies that paralyzed roads.

For the past several years, their political campaigning has focused on supporting Pakistain's controversial blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
law that calls for anyone who publicly insults Islam to be put to death.

The deadly festivities came at a time when support for Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
is plummeting amid rising food and fuel prices and the ongoing coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic. Khan was visiting Lahore on Friday when the protest began.

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