Police detain a protagonist of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan enactment during clashes successful Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Pakistani constabulary fired teardrop state and swung batons astatine thousands of protesters connected Sunday successful Karachi aft the demonstrators tried to interruption done a information barricade.
Around 2,000 supporters of a far-right Islamist enactment tried to scope the city’s property nine to reason a different objection staged by civilian nine groups astir the sidesplitting of a blasphemy fishy portion helium was successful custody.
Supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan enactment hurled rocks astatine officers and torched a patrol car erstwhile constabulary stopped them from reaching the property club. The enactment said 1 of its members died successful the violence.
Police occurrence teardrop state ammunition to disperse supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan enactment during clashes successful Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Police arrested astir 20 radical from some demonstrations. Provincial Interior Minister Zia Ul Hassan said authorities feared clashes due to the fact that some the governmental enactment and the civilian nine groups had issued calls for protests connected the aforesaid day.
Ul Hassan condemned the violence, particularly fixed an upcoming information acme successful Islamabad and past week’s deadly onslaught connected a convoy of Chinese nationals extracurricular the city’s airport.
The TLP supports Pakistan’s arguable blasphemy laws, which telephone for the decease punishment for anyone who insults Islam.