Crackdown on hardliners triggers violent clashes across Pakistan

Violent clashes broke out in cities across Pakistan on Saturday after police moved to clear out a sit-in protest by hardline Islamists in the capital Islamabad. Several thousand protesters from the little-known Tehreek-i-Labaik have brought the city to a virtual standstill since November 6 and armed police and paramilitary units moved to disperse them on Saturday morning.  But the confrontation quickly turned violent as security forces fired teargas and rubber bullets and the protesters tor