Islamabad/Lahore: An Islamabad-bound flight carrying Canada-based divisive preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri, who has vowed to lead a “revolution” against the Pakistan government, was today diverted to Lahore ...
Could Pakistan witness a revolution? It seems a far-fetched idea but that is exactly what being called for by Tahir-ul-Qadri, a Sufi preacher and leader of political party Pakistan Awami Tehrik. The ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A fiery anti-government cleric on Saturday led a massive rally of thousands of protesters in Pakistan’s capital who defied pouring rain to demand the prime minister step down over ...
Incitement of violence, treason also among charges filed against cleric and his supporters after the death of two policemen. Police on Sunday charged anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri with murder ...
Warrants were issued for the opposition leaders Imran Khan and Muhammad Tahir-ul Qadri for their part in leading a protest movement. By Declan Walsh Protest leaders in Islamabad said Wednesday that ...
ISLAMABAD — This week a prominent cleric-turned-politician returned to Pakistan, vowing to organize anti-government protests. Canada-based Tahir-ul Qadri has pledged a “peaceful revolution against a ...
He calls himself Sheikh-ul-Islam and gets his supporters to swear allegiance to him on the Koran, but he hates to be called "maulana," a term regularly used to refer to religious scholars in Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD—Populist Pakistani cleric Tahir ul Qadri vowed to overthrow the government of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after an Emirates aircraft that was supposed to take him from Dubai to ...
WHO and what is Tahir ul Qadri? And, more importantly, who is behind him? Those are the questions now racing through political Pakistan, with no firm answers. The religious cleric, previously a minor ...
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is best known internationally for fatwa that he issued in 2010 condemning terrorism. The influential Islamic scholar declared in that 600-page religious ruling that no Muslim ...
He returned to Pakistan from self-imposed exile in Canada Critics are skeptical as to Qadri's intentions; he says he wants change He's spent millions on prime time advertising calling on support for ...