Pakistan frees the chief of the hardline TLP group a week after removing his name from a terrorism watch list under a deal to end weeks of protests
TLP entered politics in 2017 and surprised the political elite by securing more than 2 million votes in the 2018 election.
The government spokesperson Hasaan Khawar said he was released from a jail in Lahore city on Thursday. His lawyer confirmed the release.The release came two weeks after the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan agreed to free over 2,000 detained members of the TLP movement, lifted a ban on the group and agreed to let it contest elections.
Khan's government had designated the TLP a terrorist group and arrested Rizvi amid similar violent protests earlier this year.The TLP, which can mobilise thousands of supporters, was born in 2015 out of a protest campaign to seek the release of a police guard who assassinated a provincial governor in 2011 over his calls to reform blasphemy legislation.
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