Pakistan: Leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik arrested in raid from Lahore

Pakistani authorities on Friday night arrested a religious party leader whose followers have shut down major cities demanding the stricter application of stringent laws on blasphemy against Islam.

The son of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a prominent cleric and leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) party, said his father had been taken away in a nighttime raid on his religious school, or madrassa, in the eastern city of Lahore.

"Police raided our madrassa and arrested our revered leader," Saad Rizvi told Reuters by telephone.