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.

Minhaj University Lahore (MUL) successfully hosted a landmark session of the 8th International Conference on World Religions ...

Ever since the influential Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri last month issued a 600-page fatwa, or religious ruling, condemning terror, he has been at the center of international discussions ...

The Pakistan government and its Army have found themselves at the receiving end of their citizens and Parliamentarians, after getting beaten in the war of nerves with ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

After over two months of siege on the nation’s capital, Pakistani anti-government cleric Tahir ul-Qadri told his supporters that the sit-in in Islamabad is at an end. Both Qadri and Imran Khan, leader ...

Heads held high, bursting with pride at accomplishing what they had believed to be impossible, the tens of thousands who had followed Tahir-ul Qadri on his long march to Islamabad dispersed Thursday ...

In Pakistan, a controversial Muslim cleric has been shaking up the political scene. Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri returned to his home country late last year, after spending eight years in Canada. Since coming ...

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 ...