Police use water cannon to disperse supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) during a protest in Lahore on April 12, 2021, after the arrest of their leader, who has called for the expulsion of the French ambassador. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





Police officers chase angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, during a clash following the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Two demonstrators and a policeman were killed Tuesday in violent clashes between Islamists and police in Pakistan, hours after authorities arrested Rizvi in the eastern city of Lahore, a senior official and local media reported. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Police clash with supporters of Islamic political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), after they blocked a road to demand the release of their leader Saad Hussain Rizvi, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 13 April 2021. On 12 April, Pakistani authorities arrested Rizvi who has demanded that the French ambassador be expelled by 20 April, as supposedly agreed with the government earlier, resulting in protests and a blockade of roads by his supporters. The radical group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), led by the detained Islamist Saad Hussain Rizvi, led a blockade of the Pakistani capital by multiple hardline groups in November to protest against the caricatures of Prophet Mohammad and French President Emmanuel Macron's comments on Islam, considered blasphemous by Muslims. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





A banner with the portraits of Khadim Hussein Rizvi, top, and Saad Rizvi, leaders of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, hang on a bridge while their supporters block a road during a sit-in protest against the arrest of Rizvi, the head of their party, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Pakistani security forces swinging batons and firing teargas moved before dawn Wednesday to clear sit-ins by protesting Islamists in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and elsewhere after five people died in earlier clashes, officials said. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





People break their fast during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Ramadan is marked by daily fasting from dawn to sunset. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Police personnel destroy poppy cultivation in the Prang Ghar area of Mohmand Agency, about 100 kms from Peshawar on April 11, 2021. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a banned Islamist party, block a road and shout slogans protesting the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi, who was demanding the government to expel French ambassador, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, April 18, 2021. A crackdown by security forces on protesting supporters of the banned party left several people dead and many others, including police officers, injured, a police spokesman said Sunday. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Police officers hang on to an ambulance carrying their colleagues that were injured during a clash with supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a banned Islamist party, protesting the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a banned Islamist party, block a road and shout slogans protesting the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi, who was demanding the government expel the French ambassador, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A Pakistani Muslim boy reads verses from the holy Koran at a Mosque during the fasting month of Ramadan, amid the coronavirus pandemic in Peshawar, Pakistan, 15 April 2021. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





Pakistani truck drivers from different cities sit on the roof top of the buildings at Truck station offering Dua before breaking the fast during Holy month of Ramadan in Lahore on April 15, 2021. Ramadan is marked by daily fasting from dawn to sunset Islami's holy month of Ramadan-ul-Mubarak is celebrated by Muslims worldwide marked by fasting, abstaining from foods, sеx and smoking from dawn to dusk for soul cleansing and strengthening the spiritual bond between them and the Almighty. During the month of Ramadan Muslims enter into a period of discipline and worship: fasting during the day, and praying throughout the day and night. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party disperse after police fired tear gas during a protest against the arrest of their leader as he was demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador over depictions of Prophet Muhammad, in Lahore on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A worker sprays disinfectant to sanitize a mosque ahead of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Muslims take part in Friday prayer as part of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 16, 2021. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a banned Islamist party, react after police fire tear gas to disperse them while protesting the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 19, 2021. The outlawed Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country's interior minister said Monday. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A supporter of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a banned Islamist party, throws a stone while another tries to extinguish a tear gas canister fired by police to disperse protests over the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A police officer take position on a vehicle at a deserted road due to strikes called by the the country's religious political parties over the security forces's crackdown against a banned Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 19, 2021. An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country's interior minister said Monday. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A man reads a copy of morning news paper at a market closed due to strikes called by the the country's religious political parties over the security forces's crackdown against a banned Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Workers of Saylani Welfare Trust prepare Iftar food plates for Muslim devotees to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Karachi on April 17, 2021. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP Photo)