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{{Infobox political party
| name = Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan
| native_name = کالعدم تحریک لبیک پاکستان
| native_name_lang = ur
| predecessor = Khadim Hussain Rizvi
| abbreviation = TLP
| colorcode = {{Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan/meta/color}}
| logo = Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan logo.png
| logo_size = 150px
| leader1_title = Ameer
| leader1_name = [[Saad Hussain Rizvi]]
| founder = [[Khadim Hussain Rizvi]]
| founded = 1 August 2015
| banned = 15 April 2021<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ali|first=Imran Gabol {{!}} Shakeel Qarar {{!}} Imtiaz|date=2021-04-14|title=Government has decided to ban TLP, says interior minister|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1618186|access-date=2021-04-14|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Govt decides to ban TLP under anti-terror law|url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/345260-govt-decides-to-ban-tlp-under-terror-law|access-date=2021-04-14|website=www.geo.tv|language=en}}</ref>
| headquarters = Lahore
| youth_wing =
| membership_year = 2017
| membership =
| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
|[[Islamism]]
|[[Persecution of Ahmadis|Anti-Ahmadi]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1430925|title='We will not bow to extremists': Govt hits back after vicious campaign targets Atif Mian|last=Dawn.com|date=4 September 2018}}</ref>}}
| position = [[Far-right politics|Far-right]]<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/14/pakistan-to-ban-far-right-religious-party-after-violent-protest|title=Pakistan ‘to ban’ far-right religious party after deadly protests|first=Asad|last=Hashim|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref><ref name="eaf"/><ref name="bljz">{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/tehreek-labbaik-campaigns-blasphemy-180705154014562.html|title=Tehreek-e-Labbaik: New far right campaigns against 'blasphemy'|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref>
| national =
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]] (specifically, [[Barelvi]])
| seats1_title = [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh|Sindh Assembly]]
| seats1 = {{Composition bar|{{SindhPA|TLP}}|168|{{Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan/meta/color}}}}
| colors =
| website = {{URL|http://tlyp.org.pk}}
| symbol = Crane <br />[[Image:Crane Machine Symbol.svg|100px]]
| flag =
| country = Pakistan
| footnotes =
| seats2_title = [[National Assembly of Pakistan|National Assembly]]
| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|342|#004000}}
}}
'''Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan''' ''({{Lang-ur|تحریک لبیک پاکستان|lit="I am present Pakistan" movement}}; abbr. '''TLP''')'' is a [[far-right]] Islamist political party in [[Pakistan]].<ref name="auto"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/27/pakistani-law-minister-quits-zahid-hamid|title=Pakistani law minister quits after weeks of anti-blasphemy protests|last=Abbas|first=Nosheen|last2=Rasmussen|first2=Sune Engel|date=27 November 2017|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="eaf">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/12/27/democracy-between-military-might-and-the-ultra-right-in-pakistan/|title=Democracy between military might and the ultra-right in Pakistan|last=Yousaf|first=Farooq|date=27 December 2017|website=East Asia Forum|access-date=1 November 2018}}</ref> The party was founded by [[Khadim Hussain Rizvi]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://nation.com.pk/04-Nov-2017/tehreek-labik-to-hold-islamabad-long-march | title=Tehreek Labik to hold Islamabad long march | website=nation.com.pk | access-date=10 November 2017}}</ref> Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan was banned on 15 April 2021 by the [[Government of Pakistan]] under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 Rule 11.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TLP banned: What does it mean?|url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/345461-tlp-banned-what-does-it-mean|access-date=2021-04-15|website=www.geo.tv|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan to ban radical Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP)|url=https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/pakistan-to-ban-radical-islamist-party-tehreek-e-labbaik-pakistan-tlp20210414215741/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=ANI News|language=en}}</ref> It is the organiser of the ongoing [[2020–2021 Pakistani protests|2021 Pakistani protests]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hashim|first=Asad|title=Pakistan temporarily blocks social media over potential protests|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/16/pakistan-temporarily-blocks-social-media-amid-anti-france-rallies|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref>

The TLP is known for its countrywide street power and massive protests in opposition to any change to [[Blasphemy law in Pakistan|Pakistan's blasphemy law]].<ref name="bljz"/> The party came into existence, and subsequently rose to fame, after the hanging of [[Mumtaz Qadri]], a convicted murderer, which the political party states was unjustifiable. It demands that [[Sharia law]] be established as the fundamental law in [[Pakistan]], through a gradual legal and political process.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://labbaik.pk/ | title=Tehreek E Labaik Pakistan | website=labbaik.pk | access-date=10 November 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110185110/http://labbaik.pk/ | archive-date=2017-11-10 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Most of the party's members belong to the [[Barelvi]] school of Islamic thought.

==History==
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan was formed on 1 August 2015 by Allama [[Khadim Hussain Rizvi]] and banned by the Government of Pakistan on 15th April 2021.

The TLP was allotted the crane as its election symbol in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Khan|first=Iftikhar A.|date=2017-10-01|title=Election symbol allotted to Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1361164|access-date=2021-04-14|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>

==Khatm e Nabuwat Bill controversy==
{{Main|2017 Faizabad sit-in}}

In October 2017, the [[government of Pakistan]] controversially changed the language in its 2017 elections bill. The Islamic Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and its leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi strongly opposed the new language, and demanded the resignation of Pakistan's [[Minister for Law and Justice (Pakistan)|Minister for Law and Justice]] [[Zahid Hamid]], who had changed the law.

TLP held a large protest against the controversial amendment, stopping traffic at the [[Faizabad Interchange]] at first, which then led to further protests across the country. The party led a three-week [[sit-in]] protest that paralyzed the entire country including Pakistan's capital, [[Islamabad]]. At least six protesters were killed and 200 were injured when police unsuccessfully tried to disperse the sit-in, the protest had already spread out nationwide.<ref name=":0" />

Minister Zahid Hamid had to finally resign.

== Acquittal and release of Asia Bibi ==
{{Further|Asia Bibi blasphemy case}}
Following the acquittal of [[Asia Bibi]] (formally, Asia Noreen), a [[Pakistani Christian]] who was charged with blasphemy and kept in solitary confinement for eight years until found innocent on 31 October 2018,<ref name="Aqeel2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/october/asia-bibi-free-pakistan-blasphemy-death-supreme-court.html|title=Pakistan Frees Asia Bibi from Blasphemy Death Sentence|date=31 October 2018|publisher=Christianity Today|language=en|access-date=31 October 2018|author=Asif Aqeel}}</ref> Tehreek-e-Labbaik party members held protests across Pakistan that included "blocking roads but not damaging the infrastructure".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/pakistan-thousands-protest-blasphemy-acquittal-ignore-pm-call-181101140852399.html|title=Pakistan: Thousands protest blasphemy acquittal, ignore PM's call|author=Asad Hashim|date=1 November 2018|publisher=[[Al Jazeera]]|language=en|access-date=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="DW2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/asia-bibis-blasphemy-verdict-islamists-protest-across-pakistan/a-46101210|title=Asia Bibi′s blasphemy verdict: Islamists protest across Pakistan|date=31 October 2018|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|language=en|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref> Muhammad Afzal Qadri, a TLP co-founder, also called for the death of the three Supreme Court justices involved in hearing Bibi's appeal, stating "The Chief Justice and two others deserve to be killed ... Either their security guards, their drivers, or their chefs should kill them."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pakistani-islamists-are-on-the-boil-over-acquittal-of-asia-bibi/articleshow/66463406.cms|title=Pakistani Islamists are on the boil over acquittal of Asia Bibi|author=Omer Farooq Khan |date=1 November 2018|publisher=[[Times of India]]|language=en|access-date=1 November 2018}}</ref>

On 2 November 2018, the [[Government of Pakistan]] under the administration of [[Imran Khan]] and the Tehreek-e-Labbaik political party, which encouraged the protests against Asia Bibi, came into an agreement that barred Asia Bibi from leaving the country, in addition to releasing Tehreek-e-Labbaik protesters who were under arrest.<ref name="N182018">{{cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/news/world/hardliners-to-call-off-protests-over-acquittal-of-asia-bibi-after-pm-imran-khans-govt-bars-her-from-leaving-pakistan-1928561.html|title=Asia Bibi Barred From Leaving Pakistan as Imran Khan Govt Strikes Deal With Islamist Protesters|date=2 November 2018|publisher=[[News 18]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="Farmer2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/02/christian-woman-cleared-blasphemy-barred-leaving-pakistan/|title=Christian woman cleared of blasphemy barred from leaving Pakistan|date=2 November 2018|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="RP2018">{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.gov.pk/02-11-2018/successful-negotiations-between-tehreek-e-labbaik-and-govt|title=Govt & Tehreek-e-Labbaik reach agreement to end protests|date=2 November 2018|publisher=Radio Pakistan|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="AhmadMasood2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/world/asia/pakistan-blasphemy-asia-bibi.html|title=Pakistan Makes Concessions to Protesters in Blasphemy Case|date=2 November 2018|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref> The deal includes expediting a motion in the court to place Asia Noreen on Pakistan's [[No Fly List#No fly lists in other countries|no fly list]], known officially as the [[Exit Control List]] (ECL).<ref name="Farmer2018"/> Due to pressure from Tehreek-e-Labbaik, Pakistani authorities hadn't released Asia Noreen until the "Supreme Court makes a final review of its verdict" as "Ghulam Mustafa, the lawyer representing a provincial cleric in Punjab who had filed the initial blasphemy charges against Bibi, petitioned the Supreme Court requesting that the judges review her acquittal."<ref name="Karim2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asia-bibi-christian-pakistan-blasphemy-barred-from-leaving-acquittal/|title=Pakistan delays release of Christian woman after blasphemy acquittal|date=2 November 2018|publisher=[[CBN News]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref>

This agreement between the Government of Pakistan and Tehreek-e-Labbaik has led to "allegations [that] the government was capitulating to extremists".<ref name="2018BBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46080067|title=Asia Bibi: Deal to end Pakistan protests over blasphemy case|date=2 November 2018|publisher=[[BBC]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref> Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry responded to these allegations, saying that "We had two options: either to use force, and when you use force people can be killed. That is not something a state should do... We tried negotiations and (in) negotiations you take something and you leave something."<ref name="2018BBC"/> Asia Noreen's lawyer Saif-ul-Mulook called the agreement between the Government of Pakistan and the Islamists "painful", stating that "They cannot even implement an order of the country's highest court".<ref name="Mulook2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46082324|title=Asia Bibi: Lawyer flees Pakistan in fear of his life
|date=3 November 2018|publisher=[[BBC]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref> Feeling that his life was threatened, Mulook fled to Europe in order "to stay alive as I still have to fight the legal battle for Asia Bibi."<ref name="Mulook2018"/> British Pakistani Christian Association chairman Wilson Chowdhry stated that “I am not surprised that Imran Khan's regime has caved in to extremists”.<ref name="Stubley2018">{{cite web|author=Peter Stubley|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/asia-bibi-pakistan-government-deal-islamist-extremist-protests-blasphemy-supreme-court-a8616011.html|title=Asia Bibi: Pakistan government stops Christian woman leaving country after 'caving in' to hardline Islamists|date=3 November 2018|publisher=[[The Independent]]|language=en|access-date=2 November 2018|quote=Under the terms of the deal made on Friday night, prime minister Imran Khan’s administration said it would begin legal proceedings to place Asia Bibi on the “exit control list” (ECL). ... “I am not surprised that Imran Khan’s regime has caved in to extremists,” said Wilson Chowdhry, chair of the British Pakistani Christian Association.}}</ref> [[Jemima Goldsmith]], an ex-wife of [[Imran Khan]], similarly "said that Pakistan's government caved in to extremist demands to bar Asia Bibi from leaving the country", opining "Not the Naya Pakistan we'd hoped for. 3 days after a defiant & brave speech defending the judiciary, Pakistan's gov caves in to extremist demands to bar Asia Bibi from leaving Pak, after she was acquitted of blasphemy- effectively signing her death warrant."<ref name="Goldsmith2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/389575-jemima-says-pakistans-govt-caves-in-to-extremist-demands-to-bar-asia-bibi-from-leaving|title=Jemima says Pakistan’s govt caves in to extremist demands to bar Asia Bibi from leaving|date=4 November 2018|publisher=[[The International News]]|language=en|access-date=4 November 2018}}</ref>

On 7 November 2018, Asia Bibi was released from New Jail for Women in [[Multan]], flown to [[PAF Base Nur Khan]], from whence she then departed the country on a charter plane, to the [[Netherlands]].<ref name="Zulqernain2018">{{cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/asia-bibi-released-from-jail-to-be-shifted-to-the-netherlands-report/1417421|date=7 November 2018|publisher=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|title=Asia Bibi released from jail, to be shifted to the Netherlands|language=en|access-date=7 November 2018}}</ref> Hafiz Shahbaz Attari of the Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), upon hearing the news, said that TLP members would gather in [[Islamabad]] and [[Rawalpindi]] to try and prevent the departure of Asia Bibi to the Netherlands.<ref name="Zulqernain2018"/>

==Party leaders' arrest==
On 23 November 2018, after approval of Federal Cabinet, provincial police carried out an operation and arrested the Chief of TLP along with some 50 members of his party to defunct the TLP's call for a public rally in [[Liaqat National Bagh|Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh]] planned for November 25, 2018, following which protests spread out and situation deteriorated. [[Fawad Chaudhry|Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting]] confirms the arrest as a protective custody.<ref>{{cite news|title= TLP Chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi taken into 'protective custody', information minister announces|url= https://www.dawn.com/news/1447217 |access-date=24 November 2018|work= Reporters - Dawn (newspaper) |date=23 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Mian Abrar |url=https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/23/crackdown-against-tlp-begins-several-arrested/ |title= Khadim Rizvi among other TLP leaders arrested |publisher=Pakistan Today|date= 23 November 2018 |access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>Along with media blackout, TLP faced social media and websites bans during the crack down.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1443541|title=Khadim Hussain Rizvi's Twitter account suspended|last=Dawn.com|date=2018-11-04|website=DAWN.COM|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> The TLP leaders Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Pir Afzal Qadri, Inayat Haq Shah, Hafiz Farooqul Hassan were booked on charges of sedition and terrorism.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dawn.com|date=2018-12-01|title=TLP leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi booked under sedition, terrorism charges: information minister|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1448807|access-date=2021-04-14|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>

On 12 April 2021, Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s son, Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi was arrested by police while he was coming back from a funeral prayer prior to a planned protest by the party on 20th April, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Police detain TLP chief Saad Hussain Rizvi over protest plan {{!}} SAMAA|url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2021/04/lahore-police-arrest-tlp-chief-saad-hussain-rizvi/|access-date=2021-04-14|website=Samaa TV|language=en-US}}</ref> The planned protest's motive was to pressure the [[Government of Pakistan]] to deport the French ambassador in Pakistan over the controversy of cartoons of Mohammad. Over the 3 days long protest in the country, French embassy asked it's citizens to temporarily leave the country. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-15|title=French embassy advises citizens to leave Pakistan|url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210415-french-embassy-advises-citizens-to-leave-pakistan|access-date=2021-04-15|website=France 24|language=en}}</ref>

On 14 April 2021, the party was banned, which came after [[2021 Pakistani protests|violent protests]] that caused the deaths of 2 policemen and left 340 injured, in retaliation to the arrest of the new ameer. The interior minister stated that the Punjab government had requested for the ban and the summary after being approved from the federal cabinet resulted in the ban on TLP under the [[Anti-Terrorism Act 1997]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ali|first=Imran Gabol {{!}} Shakeel Qarar {{!}} Imtiaz|date=2021-04-14|title=Government has decided to ban TLP under anti-terror law, says interior minister|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1618186|access-date=2021-04-14|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>

During protests on 18 April 2021 outside the TLP office in Saddar area of Lahore near [[Multan Road]], a police team tried removing the members, leading to clashes and eleven police officers being injured. Protesters also attacked the police station in Nawan Kot, taking 11 policemen as hostages and torturing them. They were released on the next day after talks with the federal government. The protesters also stole an oil tanker.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Khan|first=Jahangeer Akram|date=2021-04-19|title=Two TLP supporters killed in clash with Lahore police|url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2021/04/two-tlp-supporters-killed-in-clash-with-lahore-police/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=Samaa TV|language=en}}</ref>

==Controversies==

=== Extrajudicial killings ===

In March of 2019, a third year student at Bahawalpur's Government Sadiq Egerton College, Khateeb Hussain, stabbed associate professor Khalid Hameed in a fatal encounter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1470814|title=Bahawalpur student stabs professor to death over 'anti-Islam' remarks|first=Mohammad Imran ||last=AFP|date=March 20, 2019|website=DAWN.COM}}</ref> Khateeb Hussain was in contact with Zafar Gillani, a lawyer and senior member of the TLP prior to the murder, and obtained approval for the act over [[Whatsapp]]. The supposed motive for the killing was blasphemous and insulting rhetoric towards Islam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/tlp-leader-arrested-for-forcing-student-to-murder-professor-in-bahawalpur/|title=TLP leader arrested for ‘forcing student to murder professor’ in Bahawalpur|date=March 28, 2019|website=Daily Pakistan Global}}</ref><ref>https://tlyp.org.pk/news/index.php/0302202091/</ref>

In 2018, Sareer Ahmed, the principal of Islamia College in [[Charsadda]], was murdered by a 17-year old student who he had reprimanded for missing a number of classes. According to reports circulating on media channels, the student accused the professor of engaging in "blasphemy" for reprimanding him for skipping class to attend rallies held by the TLP. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-blasphemy-idUSKBN1FB2PG|title=Pakistani principal shot dead by student over blasphemy dispute|first=Saad|last=Sayeed|date=January 23, 2018|via=www.reuters.com}}</ref> However, it could not be verified whether the professor has engaged in blasphemy or not. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1384652|title=Principal shot dead by student in Charsadda|first=Faiz|last=Muhammad|date=January 23, 2018|website=DAWN.COM}}</ref>

=== Support for blasphemy-related attacks outside Pakistan ===
In 2018, when the Dutch politician [[Geert Wilders]] announced that he is planning to hold a contest to draw caricatures of the [[Muhammad|Prophet Muhammad]], there were large protests in Pakistan against it. It was in this context that TLP leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi declared in front of media that he would order nuclear bomb strikes on the Netherlands to destroy the entire country and "wipe them off the map" just for the cartoons of a few Dutch citizens if he was given the chance to or if he became Pakistan's leader.<ref>{{Cite web |work=EurAsian Times |date=2018-07-10 |title=Why is Pakistan Threatening Nuclear Attack on Holland of all the Places?|url=https://eurasiantimes.com/pakistan-nuclear-attack-holland/ |access-date=2020-11-01 |language=en-US}}</ref> He is quoted to have said at a press conference in Karachi "If they give me the atom bomb I would remove Holland from the face of the earth before they can hold a competition of caricatures… I will wipe them off the face of this earth."<ref>{{Cite news |author=Shailaja Neelakantan |title=Pakistan: Give me atom bomb, I'll wipe out Holland: Pakistan's rising Islamist politician Khadim Hussain Rizvi |newspaper=Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/give-me-atom-bomb-ill-wipe-out-holland-pakistans-rising-islamist-politician-khadim-hussain-rizvi/articleshow/64930191.cms |access-date=2020-11-01 |language=en}}</ref> Eventually Geert Wilders cancelled his proposed cartoon contest citing fears of security risks.

In late October 2020, just after the [[Murder of Samuel Paty|killing of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty]] in a suburb of [[Paris]] by an 18-year old Chechen refugee, TLP published an article on their official website where they commended the killing, labelling the killer as a "[[Shahid|Shaheed]]" and "[[Mujahideen|Mujahid]]" as well as posting a photo of the bloodied severed head of Samuel Paty in the same article on which the killer initially posted to Twitter just after the killing. The post was deleted by Twitter soon afterwards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=19 October 2020|title=Mujahid Abdullah Beheaded Samuel Paty for Blasphemy|url=https://tlyp.org.pk/en/mujahid-abdullah-beheaded-samuel-paty-for-blasphemy/|access-date=1 November 2020|website=Tehreek-e-Labbaik}}</ref>

=== Political influence ===

TLP has notably held protests against actions by the government deemed unjust and against the teachings of Islam.

In 2018, world renowned Princeton economist, [[Atif Mian]] was initially chosen as a member of an [[Economic Advisory Council (Pakistan)|Economic Advisory Council]] formed by [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Pakistani Prime Minister]] [[Imran Khan]] to provide assistance on issues of economics and finance.<ref name=ref1>{{citation|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1430355|date=September 1, 2018|title=PM Khan forms 18-member Economic Advisory Council}}</ref> Since his appointment, the government faced criticism from groups opposed to government representation for religious minorities, prominently by the TLP under the guidance of Rizvi. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/364299-imran-khan-govt-in-the-ye-of-the-storm|title=Atif R. Mian's appointment: Moment of truth for Imran Khan|work=The News|date=5 September 2018}}</ref> because of Atif's affiliation with the [[Ahmadiyya]] faith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1430925|title='We will not bow to extremists': Govt hits back after vicious campaign targets Atif Mian|date=4 September 2018|work=Dawn}}</ref> He was removed from the Economic Advisory Council on 7 September 2018<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chaudhry |first1=Dawn.com |title=Under pressure govt backtracks on Atif Mian's appointment; removes economist from advisory council |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1431495 |access-date=7 September 2018 |work=DAWN.COM |date=7 September 2018}}</ref> and afterwards council members [[Asim Ijaz Khwaja]] and [[Imran Rasul]] resigned in protest.<ref>{{cite news |title=EAC loses one more Ivy League professor after Atif Mian |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/365268-after-atif-mian-eac-loses-one-more-ivy-league-professor |access-date=7 September 2018 |work=The News |date=7 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Asim Ijaz Khawaja, leading international economist quits Pakistan EAC as protest |url=https://timesofislamabad.com/07-Sep-2018/dr-asim-ijaz-khawaja-leading-international-economist-quits-pakistan-eac-as-protest |access-date=8 September 2018 |work=Times of Islamabad |date=7 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1798271/1-imran-rasul-resigns-eac-protest-atif-mians-removal/|title=Imran Rasul resigns from EAC in solidarity with Atif Mian|date=8 September 2018|publisher=The Express Tribune}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Barelvi political parties]]
[[Category:Sunni Islamic movements]]
[[Category:2015 establishments in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Islamist groups]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 2015]]
[[Category:Islamic political parties in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Blasphemy law in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Far-right political parties in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan]]
[[Category:Banned Islamist parties]]
[[Category:Organisations designated as terrorist by Pakistan]]

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