The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Thursday called off a protest it was going to hold later this month after a new agreement was signed between the party leaders and the government in which it was decided that the government would present the terms of an agreement signed between them last year in the parliament before April 20.
The earlier agreement had said that the government would reach a consensus in the parliament regarding the expulsion of the French ambassador within three months, would not appoint its ambassador to France and would release all the arrested workers of the TLP. The government would also not register any case against the TLP leaders or workers even after it called off the sit-in (in November 2020), it stated.
The agreement said that the government had not yet implemented the terms of the Nov 2020 agreement. “Negotiations have been going on between the Government of Pakistan and TLP on this problem for a month during which the government has reaffirmed its resolve. Terms of the [previous] agreement will be presented in parliament by April 20, 2021, and decisions will be taken with the approval of parliament,” it reads.
It also said that names of TLP members that had been placed on the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) would be removed.
