LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri urged the masses to join his Qasas movement in order to purge corruption from the country. Addressing his supporters, Qadri urged students, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is a Canadian Islamic cleric marching on the streets of Pakistan and talking about creating a “peaceful” Tahrir Square in Islamabad? This is the question which has been perplexing many political ...

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 ...

Tahir ul Qadri, the Canadian-Pakistani cleric seeking to transform Pakistan into a moderate Islamic state, was grilled by the Pakistani supreme court on how he could truly be loyal to Pakistan while ...

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.

Protesters gathered in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad have been at it for three weeks now, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over suspicions of a rigged election. But ...

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