ISLAMABAD–Pakistani police used tear gas and watercannon, and fought running battles with stone-throwing Islamic activists, as they moved to clear a protest by the religious hard-liners who have blocked main routes into Islamabad for more than two weeks.
The clashes began on Saturday, Nov. 25, when police launched an operation, involving some 4,000 officers, to disperse around 1,000 activists from Tehreek-e-Labaik, a new hard-line Islamic political party, and break up their camp, police official Saood Tirmizi told Reuters.
