allama saad hussain rizvi

who is Saad Hussain Rizvi?

Saad Hussain Rizvi (Urdu: سعد حسین رضوی) is the second leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, [2] [3] [4] the Pakistani Islamist political party in the far right. He is the son of TLP founder Khadim Hussain Rizvi. [5] Rizvi was born in Attock and moved to Lahore Masjid Rehmatal-lil-Almeen (Yateem Khanna Chowk, Lahore) where his father was a mosque preacher. [1] He attended the Royal Grammar School and later joined the Madrassah Abbu Zar Ghaffari of his father Hifz-E-Quran. Later, he studied Qirat-o-Tajweed for a whole year. [1] He is fluent in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Punjabi. [1] Rizvi joined Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan in 2015. He has served as the party's Deputy General Secretary. In November 2020, following the death of his father Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Saad Rizvi became the leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan. 

Key documents: Pakistan 2021 protests and October 2021 protests in Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan

On April 12, 2021, the Pakistani government arrested Rizvi in ​​Lahore and charged him with the Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (ATA), which created unrest. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Attiq Ahmed, Punjab Prisons' public relations officer, said on April 20 that Rizvi had been released. Lahore Prison Superintendent Asad Warraich, however, said he was unaware of such a release and had not yet received an order to release him. [11] Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad later confirmed that Rizvi had not yet been released. [12]

The reviewing board of the Lahore High Court quashed Saad's arrest on July 8, saying the government had no evidence to keep him in custody. [13] His subsequent arrest was extended by the government for 90 days under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997. [14] The Lahore High Court ruled that he had been unlawfully detained on October 1, in response to an application by his uncle. [15] The state appellate board of the Supreme Court extended his monthly detention the following day. [16]

The Punjab Government later appealed to the Supreme Court against the decision of the Lahore High Court, but appealed the case on October 12 to a special two-member panel of the Lahore High Court to rule. [17] TLP later joined the protests demanding his release. [18] Following an agreement between the Government of Pakistan and the TLP, the ban on the organization was lifted and Rizvi's name was removed from the list of candidates on November 12, [19] He was released from prison on November 18. [20] [21]