LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested more than 100 people following violence in the eastern city of Lahore, a senior official said Saturday.
Supporters of the radical Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, or TLP, want to march from Lahore to Islamabad to express their solidarity with Palestinians. But authorities said they don’t have permission to demonstrate in the capital.
Police have clashed with the party’s supporters in Lahore since Friday, using tear gas and batons to disperse the crowds. People are throwing stones in retaliation. On Saturday morning, police fired volleys of canisters and rubber bullets to stop people from breaching barricades.
Kamran Faisal, the city’s deputy inspector general for operations, told reporters that the protesters wer