‘No leniency’: Pakistani NSA warns of action against TLP as Islamists march in Islamabad

Thousands of members of the TLP are protesting on the streets of Pakistan with various demands, including the release of their imprisoned leader Saad Rizvi.

Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf on Thursday, October 28, said the banned Islamist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) had “crossed the red line and exhausted the state’s patience”. For all individuals and groups who think they can challenge the writ of the Pakistani state, do not test the proposition. As the basic principle of national security, the state will never shy away from protecting each and every citizen from any form of violence. TLP has crossed

Thousands of members of the TLP are protesting on the streets of Pakistan with various demands, including the release of their imprisoned leader Saad Rizvi, a ban on French goods, and the expulsion of the French Ambassador to Pakistan. This is TLP's third nationwide protest since 2017 over caricatures that are considered blasphemous by Muslims published in a French magazine.