The federal cabinet on Sunday approved the Home Ministry’s proposal to revoke the restricted status of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Prime Minister Imran Khan a day ago was approved to submit Summary of his cabinet during the anti-terrorism court Bail granted after arrest Several leaders of the group in criminal cases registered in different police stations.
the government had declared After three days of violent protests by the group’s members across the country, TLP, a banned organization under the Anti-Terrorism Act, in April this year.
“The Cabinet considered the summary dated 6th November submitted by the Interior Division, read as per Rule 17(1)(b) with Rule 19(1). ‘TLP’ and approved the proposal,” observed by the Cabinet the judgment says don.com.
According to the Business Rules, 1973, approval by circulation means that a summary is sent to the federal ministers for their opinion. The recommendations of the ministers are sent to the Prime Minister after the stipulated time for further decisions on the matter. If a Minister fails to respond within the stipulated time period, it is assumed that he has approved the recommendations made in summary.
According to the contents of the interior ministry summary, the TLP had on April 29 requested the Punjab government to lift its restrictions.
Recalling the history of the entire episode, the summary states that a Prescription Review Committee (PRC) was constituted to deliberate on the matter and conclude that the government had no intention of declaring the TLP a banned organisation. The decision was “on the basis of merit”.
It said that the opinion of the Law Ministry has also been taken in this matter.
In keeping with the commitment and assurances given by the “Organization (TLP)” as well as “taking into account the larger national interest”, the provincial cabinet asked the federal government to consider de-prescription of the TLP, the summary noted. Was.
Opposition to TLP
The issue of lifting the TLP ban came under consideration again after another day-long protest, which began in Lahore on October 20. The protest, which turned violent, was launched mainly to pressure the Punjab government for the release of TLP chief Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi, son of its late founder Khadim Rizvi, and the French over blasphemous sketches of the holy for the expulsion of the ambassador. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The situation improved only after talks between the TLP and the government began on 30 October, with members of the government’s negotiating team claiming the next day that they had reached an “agreement” with the banned group, but that the declined to disclose details.
sources had told dawn The TLP was assured that the government would not pursue petty cases against the TLP leadership and activists, but the cases registered under the Anti-Terrorism Act would be decided by the courts. It also assured the TLP leadership that it would unfreeze the accounts and assets of the banned organization and take steps to lift the ban.
While some 2,100 TLP activists have been released from police custody following a federal government-TLP agreement, the repeal of the group’s restricted status would automatically remove about 8,000 TLP activists from the Fourth Schedule – a list on which terrorism and communalism are banned. The suspects have been kept. Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the government transferred the entire police high command of Lahore in a massive reshuffle in the wake of “mishandling of the violent rally of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan”.
Several Regional Police Officers (RPOs) and District Police Officers (DPOs) were also reshuffled in Punjab.