I fear this will turn them into ttp. Coas met PM yesterday it must have been extremely serious that they banned the entire party.
Establishment seems confused too.
Look, the State tried being nice. After Faizabad the TLP protesters were even given taxpayer money to travel back etc. Vague agreements were reached. But each time the State has been nice with the TLP, the TLP has returned with more and more violent protests and more and more unreasonable demands.
Honestly, if the State had done nothing, the TLP would have likely seen that as a sign of weakness and the next protests may have been even worse. The only alternate (outside of action against the TLP) was to capitulate to TLP demands, but those demands are ridiculous and would damage Pakistan and set an example that any group able to bring thousands of violent protesters on the streets can get its demands met.
Once again - peaceful protest is a right, but getting your demands fulfilled via protest is not guaranteed and people need to recognize and accept that.
TLP being a political party that has contested elections had a responsibility to the country and its own voters to not take this route. Had it kept the protests peaceful and accepted Parliaments decision (which will likely be to not expel the French Ambassador), then it could have built up more support and continued contesting the elections and win enough seats to influence policy making in the future. Instead it left the State no choice and self-destructed.
Now, it is possible that back-channel contacts are ongoing with the TLP leadership, and the Interior Minister's declaration to ban the TLP is a negotiating tactic to get commitments from the TLP leadership to no longer engage in these kinds of violent protests and blackmail, but I'm not confident it will be successful.