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Pakistan's Punjab state authorities connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) said it volition urge to the national authorities to prohibition the extremist radical Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) for staging violent protests past week.
The radical launched a protestation march connected Friday (October 10, 2025) with the ngo to signifier a sit-in successful beforehand of the U.S. embassy successful Islamabad successful enactment of the radical of Palestine.
At slightest 5 people, including a constabulary officer, were killed and dozens injured connected Sunday nighttime (October 12, 2025) erstwhile TLP supporters clashed with constabulary connected their mode to Islamabad.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz chaired an bonzer gathering connected instrumentality and order, during which “historic decisions were made to found the state’s writ and supremacy of the law,” a connection issued by her bureau said.
Without naming the TLP, the handout itself referred to decisions taken against an “extremist party,” including that the Punjab authorities volition “recommend the national authorities to enforce a prohibition connected an extremist party.”
“The extremist party's enactment volition beryllium placed successful the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act,” the handout said. The Fourth Schedule is simply a database of proscribed individuals who are suspected of coercion and/or sectarianism nether the 1997 Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
“Individuals progressive successful hatred speech, incitement and usurpation of instrumentality volition beryllium arrested instantly successful Punjab,” the provincial authorities decided.
It was besides decided that cases against “leaders and workers progressive successful the sidesplitting of constabulary officers and harm to authorities property” volition beryllium tried successful anti-terrorism courts (ATCs).
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“All properties and assets of the extremist enactment volition beryllium handed implicit to the Punjab Auqaf Department. There volition beryllium a implicit prohibition connected the extremist party’s posters, banners and advertisements,” the connection added.
It further said “all slope accounts” of the enactment volition beryllium frozen, and that its societal media accounts “spreading hatred volition beryllium taken down.” The Punjab authorities besides vowed “strict enactment connected the usurpation of the Loudspeaker Act.”
The improvement comes amidst the crackdown connected the TLP, which includes the apprehension of astir 2,700 radical successful the province.
It is not for the archetypal clip that the TLP is being banned, arsenic antecedently a prohibition was imposed connected the radical successful April 2021 connected the proposal of the Punjab authorities nether the ATA, but it was aboriginal revoked successful November that twelvemonth upon the petition of the Punjab government.
The radical besides faced restrictions imposed concisely successful June 2023, erstwhile the enactment was carrying retired a agelong march from Lahore to Islamabad, but reversed wrong days aft an statement was reached with the government.
TLP, a hardline radical of Sunni Muslims, roseate to prominence successful 2017 erstwhile it launched a palmy protestation and forced the authorities to reverse its decisions regarding changes successful the oath for parliamentarians.
