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The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Islamist movement (TLP) took to the streets on Wednesday after the Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi, who had been sentenced to death for nearly eight years.
The terms of the TLP deal, struck late Friday, include a government pledge not to oppose movement members' request to add Bibi to a list preventing him from leaving the country.
Bibi was still in jail on Saturday in an undisclosed location in Pakistan, his lawyer, Saiful Malook, told CNN. Earlier in the week, he said that she should settle in a western country for her own safety. According to CNN, at least two Western countries have offered asylum to Bibi after his release.
The Pakistani government has also agreed not to oppose a petition for review against the Supreme Court's decision in the Bibi case, to release all detainees held in connection with the protests and to detain them. prosecute for deaths that may have occurred during demonstrations.
The agreement was signed by Noor-ul-Haq Qadri, Minister of Religious Affairs, and Raja Basharat, Punjab Law Minister, on behalf of the Government. TLP leaders Pir Muhammad Afzal Qadri and Muhammad Waheed Noor signed on behalf of the protesters.
Earlier Friday, the Pakistani army had warned protesters in the streets that "law and order should be respected".
"The army is showing patience with this situation, we have not been able to test our patience until now," said General Asif Ghafoor, spokesman for the army, to the Pakistani state media.
"When we call ourselves Muslims, we should behave like Muslims," he said. "We should walk hand in hand with the law and the love of the prophet." Things can not become uncontrollable.
The army would only be involved if the government asked for it, he added.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the TLP to end the protests.
"This government will not stay out of the way and will not see the destruction of property and livelihoods," he said in a statement broadcast on state television. "Do not force us to act."
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The workers had refused to drink in a bucket of water that Bibi had touched because she was not Muslim. At the time, Bibi had said that the case involved women who did not like her "takes revenge".
On Wednesday, she won her appeal against the conviction and the death penalty.
The TLP had already promised to take to the streets if Bibi was released and major protests erupted in Islamabad and Lahore soon after the announcement of the judgment.
The case of Bibi has aroused indignation and support from Christians around the world. Islamist conservative groups in Pakistan have called for the death penalty to be applied.
The father of the Taliban murdered
At the same time, a Pakistani political and religious leader, known as the "father of the Taliban", was murdered after calling on Thursday for the annulment of the Supreme Court's decision to acquit Bibi, announced Friday officials.
Maulana Sami ul Haq was a religious leader and a former Pakistani senator who led an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan and who trained many Afghan Taliban leaders during the Afghan jihad against the Soviet occupation in the years. 1980.
Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad Police, Muhammad Hamza Shafqaa, confirmed Haq's death on his official Twitter account.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Khan's party, said the prime minister "strongly condemns the attack" against Haq, according to a statement posted on Twitter.
"We express our sorrow and sorrow after his martyrdom," the statement said.
Khan protested on Wednesday the protests against Bibi's acquittal as a "disgusting response" to the Supreme Court's ruling.
"You do not support Islam by talking about killing judges and our generals who have sacrificed so much for our country," said the prime minister to defend the verdicts. "I appeal to our people: do not be trapped by the world of these people who only want to increase their number of votes."
