Pakistan: Islamist group releases 11 police hostages
By DW
20 April 2021 |
7:00 am
Several police officers who were seized by anti-France demonstrators from radical Islamist group TLP have been freed. Protesters want the French ambassador to the country expelled in an ongoing dispute over blasphemy.
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