On March 27 , 2016 , twenty-five thousand people gathered at Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi . Ten thousand of them marched from Rawalpindi into the Red Zone in Islamabad to commemorate the Chehlum of death of Qadri , which is the end of the forty-day mourning period . The protesters torched a station of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus and several cars parked there . Several major arteries leading into the city were closed , and cellular service was suspended as well . They staged a sit-in outside the Parliament of Pakistan and refused to leave unless Sharia was imposed throughout Pakistan . The Pakistan Armed Forces was called in to disperse the protesters . On the same day , protesters carrying pictures of Qadri attacked the Karachi Press Club , and burned a car belonging to Jaag TV , in retaliation for the press 's " lack of coverage of their event " . This happened on the same day that a bomb attack in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore killed 69 people
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2016 Lahore suicide bombing
Mumtaz Qadri