Tahir Ul Qadri
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Anti-government marches enter Pakistan's capital
World | Aug 16, 2014, 07:51 AM ISTIslamabad: Thousands of participants in two anti-government marches arrived in Pakistani capital Islamabad late on Friday to stage a sit-in and demand the resignation of the country's Prime Minister.Cricketer-turned-politician and opposition leader Imran Khan, and
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Imran Khan launches his "Azadi March' from Lahore
World | Aug 14, 2014, 04:58 PM ISTIslamabad/Lahore: Thousands of anti-government protesters, ecouraged by a last-minute court verdict allowing peaceful demonstrations, began their march today from Lahore to Islamabad as the fear of violence gripped Pakistan's capital which has been turned into
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Pakistan braces for anti-government rallies on Independence Day
World | Aug 13, 2014, 01:06 PM ISTIslamabad/Lahore: Pakistan is bracing for two massive anti-government rallies by Canada-based Pakistani cleric Tahirul Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan on August 14, the day Pakistan celebrates its 68th Independence Day.Qadri had said that his 'Inqlab
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Nawaz Sharif speaks tough, says 'might is right' law will not be accepted
World | Aug 13, 2014, 06:04 PM ISTIslamabad: Highlighting the supremacy of democracy, freedom of speech and independence of judiciary ahead of the two-mega anti-government rallies on August 14, the day Pakistan celebrates its 68th Independence Day, its Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
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8 killed as Pak cleric's supporters clash with police
World | Aug 09, 2014, 11:43 PM ISTLahore: Eight people were killed in continuing clashes today between supporters of influential Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and security forces with over 1,000 injured across Punjab province, the Canada-based religious leader's party claimed.Qadri's Pakistan Awami Tahreek
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Qadri slams Sharif brothers for 'worst propaganda' against him
World | Jan 20, 2013, 03:18 PM ISTLahore,Jan 20: Fiery cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who led a massive protest against Pakistan government, has claimed that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, who had once “carried him on their shoulders” to show
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Qadri, Pak govt strike deal, new caretaker PM to take over
World | Jan 18, 2013, 08:39 AM ISTIslamabad, Jan 18: Islamabad, Jan 18 : Pakistan government on Thursday night agreed to appoint a caretaker Prime Minister by consensus ahead of the next general election as part of adeal struck with fiery cleric
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Tahirul Qadri has deep Lucknow roots
India | Jan 18, 2013, 06:32 AM ISTLucknow, Jan 17: The Uttar Pradesh capital may be hundreds of miles away from Islamabad but the two cities have a connect of sorts in the fiery cleric Tahirul Qadri.The 61-year-old former professor of international
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Know more about Tahir-ul-Qadri , the cleric who has stormed Pakistan
World | Jan 16, 2013, 02:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Head of the Tehrik Minhaj-ul-Quran organisation, Tahir-ul-Qadri, has hit headlines since he returned to Pakistan after living in Canada for nearly seven years.As the head of a populist Barelvi group, Qadri has the
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Pakistan in political turmoil, as Tahirul Qadri gives call for revolution
World | Jan 15, 2013, 04:56 PM ISTIslamabad, Jan 15: Pakistan was throwing into political turmoil today as the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf, even as Muslim cleric Maulana Tahirul Qadri led a huge demonstration to