ISLAMABAD: According to Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry, the Federal Cabinet has agreed to maintain the ban on the banned organisation Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).


In April, Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Federal Cabinet accepted a brief from the interior ministry requesting that the TLP be banned under the anti-terrorism statute.


After days of violence around the country in which three people died, including two police officers, the federal government decided to outlaw the TLP.


Fawad stated at a post-cabinet meeting news briefing that a committee tasked with reviewing the decision had given a report to the cabinet.

The decision to prohibit TLP was based on merit, according to the committee’s report, because the banned organisation has been accused of martyring police officers, torturing them, and torching buildings, he added.

The cabinet agreed to retain the prohibition in place as a result of the report, the minister said, adding that the Ministry of Law and Justice was trying to get the TLP’s electoral emblem removed.