Pakpattan ATC gives bail to 49 TLP activists

Published February 1, 2026
Police personnel patrol a street following crackdown on Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan activists during a protest in Muridke on October 13, 2025. — AFP/File
Police personnel patrol a street following crackdown on Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan activists during a protest in Muridke on October 13, 2025. — AFP/File

SAHIWAL: The special judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court granted bail to 49 workers and leaders of the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on surety bonds of Rs0.5m each.

Twenty-five of them have submitted their bail bonds, following which the court ordered their release from Central Prison, Pakpattan.

The Farid Nagar Police of Pakpattan had booked 58 TLP office-bearers and workers for staging a violent protest on the call of their leader Maulana Saad Rizvi on Oct 13 last year.

During the protest, they threw stones at law enforcement agencies, blocked traffic and disrupted public order at Jamala Chowk and other parts of the city.

The workers were charged in the case registered under sections of the PPC, MPO and Anti-Terrorism Act.

Published in Dawn, February 1st, 2026

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