Mr Afzaal told the charged activists that the plan for the fresh agitation would be unveiled on Thursday at 5pm. Later, hundreds of TLP workers reached outside its headquarters in groups and blocked both sides of the busy Multan Road by staging the sit-in there.
The Supreme Court had on Oct 12 suspended the operations of the single bench’s order and remanded the case for a fresh decision by a division bench.īanned outfit to announce protest plan todayĮarlier, the TLP took out a massive rally on 12th of Rabiul Awwal (Tuesday), where its senior leaders delivered fiery speeches, accusing the government of using delay tactics in releasing Saad Rizvi.Īddressing the participants, a member of TLP’s Majalis-i-Shura (central executive), Syed Afzaal Hussain Shah, made an announcement that a new series of protests would be launched. A federal review board is scheduled to take up the government’s reference against him on Oct 23.Ī division bench of the LHC is yet to be constituted to hear an appeal of the government against a decision of a single bench that had set aside the detention of the TLP leader. He was initially detained for three months and then again under the Anti-Terrorist Act on July 10. Rizvi is detained by the Punjab government since April 12 for “maintenance of public order (MPO)”. Hundreds of activists and workers of the proscribed TLP participated in the sit-in to put pressure on the Punjab government for the release of its chief Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi, a son of its late founder Khadim Rizvi. LAHORE: The city police were put on high alert on Wednesday after the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) resumed protest activities on Eid Milad on Tuesday by staging a massive sit-in on Multan Road near its headquarters at Masjid Rehmatul-lil-Aalemeen.