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Pakistan frees 669 men from radical group as it ends rallies

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Police officers stand guard at a deserted road due to strikes called by the the country's religious political parties over the security forces's crackdown against a banned Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 19, 2021. An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country's interior minister said Monday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Radical Islamist party frees 11 Pakistani police hostages

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, throw stones towards police firing tear gas to disperse them, at a protest against the arrest of their leader Saad Rizvi, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, April 12, 2021. Pakistan police arrested Rizvi a day after he threatened the government with protests if it did not expel France's ambassador over depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan police arrest radical Islamist party head in Lahore

By BABAR DOGAR AND MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press