Agreement between banned TLP, govt fully implemented: Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Friday said that an agreement between the government and the recently banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has been fully implemented.

On a social media website Twitter, the minister added people who were arrested during the protest under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) have also been released.

“If PPP or PML-N wanted to present their own resolution in the Parliament, then it was their right but, the government has ‘nothing to do with it” Fawad added.

حکومت اور کالعدم تحریک کے درمیان معاھدے پر مکمل عملدرآمد ہو چکا ہے، قراداد پیش ہو چکی ہے، MPO میں گرفتار لوگ رہا کر دئیے گئے ہیں اس ضمن میں ملک میں احتجاج کا سلسلہ ختم ہو چکا، نون لیگ یا پیپلز پارٹی اپنی قراداد لانا چاہتے ہیں تو یہ ان کا حق ہے حکومت کا اس سے کوئ لینا دینا نہیں

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) April 23, 2021

Earlier, the TLP called off its violent protests after the federal government tabled a resolution in the parliament to debate the French ambassador’s expulsion.

However, the government decided against lifting the ban on TLP it had imposed for the group staging violence across the country for almost a week. Nor would the government withdraw the cases registered against the banned outfit’s activists for murdering policemen.

Earlier, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed had said that the first information reports (FIR) against Saad Hussain Rizvi and other members of banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) will undergo legal proceedings through courts.

While addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Sheikh Rasheed said that Rizvi’s case includes sections 78A (Acts done pursuant to the judgment or order of Court) and 302 (Punishment for murder).

The minister said that the ban on the party is not being reversed, adding that the members can send an appeal against it to the Interior Ministry within 30 days. “If this happens, a commission will be constituted to decide over the case,” he added.

He informed around 669 TLP supporters arrested under the Maintenance of Public Order were released from jail.

The accord signed between the ministry and the religious party includes that decisions pertaining to all international matters will be taken by the government and no religious or political party will be allowed to pressurize them, the interior minister said.

He said that a martyr’s package will be given to the police officers killed during the TLP protests, adding that C1 and C2 certificates and Rs4 billion will be distributed to the officers injured during the sit-ins and protests.

“PM Imran will himself take Western countries into confidence and get ready a policy of common interests for Muslims across the globe,” he added.

The PTI government decided that western countries will be sensitized to the matter of blasphemy, and Islamic countries urged to take a stance against blasphemous content, he added.