LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s interior minister says an outlawed Islamist political group has freed 11 police it had held hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid clashes with security forces. The hard-line Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party freed the officers Monday, a day after taking them hostage during an attack on a police station near where the group had been rallying since last week. Islamists are angered over the arrest of their leader, Saad Rizvi, who was taken into custody by police last week. They also are pressuring the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan to immediately expel the French ambassador over the publication of controversial cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
