The online encyclopedia was blocked across Pakistan after repeated requests from Pakistani authorities for the removal of the content were met with no response.
Detentions come a day after a mob of hundreds stormed a factory in Punjab province and lynched the Sri Lankan manager to death over an accusation of blasphemy.
The mob had attempted to break into Golra police station on outskirts of Islamabad on Monday night after police refused to hand over the suspect to the crowd outside for “punishment”.
The now-banned hardline TLP wants Islamabad to expel the French Ambassador over the issue of blasphemous cartoons.
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka are all in the same rickety boat when it comes to human rights.
Putting their differences aside, most of the Muslim world has come together to protest anti-Muslim bigotry in France.
The victim had been escorted into court by police in the northern city of Peshawar when a man opened fire with a pistol.
She has landed in Canada, her lawyer told media, more than six months after she was acquitted in a blasphemy case by Pakistan's top court.
Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal says the Christian woman, who is currently at an undisclosed location for her own safety, is free to leave Pakistan and seek asylum abroad.
The country's new chief justice says the request to review her acquittal was rejected on merit. The Christian woman sentenced to death in 2010 in what swiftly became Pakistan's most infamous blasphemy case.
Asia Bibi was freed by the Supreme Court in October in a blasphemy case, a verdict the court is reviewing, after religious hardliners seeking her death rioted for days.
Police have arrested Khadim Hussain Rizvi accused of disrupting daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case.
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