5 killed in fresh clashes between radical Islamist party supporters and police in Pak

The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan had given a two-day deadline on Sunday to the government to accept its demands or face a demonstration in the capital.

At least five persons, including a policeman, were killed on Wednesday in fresh clashes between supporters of a radical Islamist party and police in Pakistan's Punjab province after the Imran Khan government failed to meet their demands to release the party chief Saad Rizvi and expel the French envoy.

More than 10,000 supporters of the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) who had been camping between Muridke and Gujranwala along the GT Road for the last three days on Wednesday started the march towards Islamabad after Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government announced that it "cannot meet the TLP’s demand for expulsion of the French ambassador".