Pakistan on Thursday banned a radical Islamist party whose followers clashed with the police in recent protests that left at least five people dead.
The decision to ban the party, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, or TLP, comes just over a week after the clashes with police, which took place on the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Punjab province and Pakistan’s second-largest city by population, after Karachi.
The office of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement that the ban had been approved by the cabinet and was justified because of the group’s “violent and terrorist activities.”
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