FOR the past several days, parts of Punjab, specifically Lahore, have become a battleground for clashes between law enforcers and workers of the TLP, as the hard-line group attempts to march on Islamabad, supposedly in ‘solidarity’ with Gaza’s battered people. This is a frustratingly familiar script, as the outfit has many times in the past chosen sensitive religious or geopolitical issues for flexing its muscles, and taking on the state, leaving a trail of violence in its wake. The state, for its part, has vacillated between indulging the TLP, banning it, unbanning it, and fighting it in the streets.........

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