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Thousands of supporters of a banned radical party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Saturday departed the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, clashing for a second straight day with police who lobbed tear gas into the crowd, a party spokesman and witnesses said. The group began their journey Friday with the goal …

Saad Rizvi, the head of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, was arrested last year amid demonstrations against France over publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. Thousands of supporters of a far-right religious party have launched their “long march” from the eastern city of Lahore toward Pakistan’s capital, demanding that the government …