Pakistan Islamist leader held, followers clash with police
The Hindu
Saad Rizvi sought French envoy’s ouster
Pakistan police on Monday arrested the leader of a radical Islamist political party a day after he threatened the government with protests if it did not expel France’s Ambassador over depictions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Saad Rizvi was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore to “maintain law and order,” said Ghulam Mohammad Dogar, chief of Lahore police. Rizvi called on the government to honour what he said was a commitment it made in February to his party to expel the French envoy before April 20 over the publication in France of depictions of Islam’s Prophet.
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