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.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: An outspoken Islamic scholar has created a counter-terrorism curriculum that he says ...

In this Jan 9, 2013, photo, Tahirul Qadri speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Lahore. — Photo by AP/File Introduction Dr Muhammad Tahirul Qadri was born on Feb 19, 1951 and hails ...

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 The cleric, Muhammad Tahir-ul Qadri, announced that ...

LAHORE: Around a thousand people gathered at Data Darbar on Wednesday in support of Mumtaz Qadri, the man who killed Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer one year ago, and called for his release. Supporters ...

After the UK’s youngest suicide bomber, 17-year-old Talha Asmal blew himself up while waging the jihad of ‘Islamic State’ (IS), also known as ISIS, David Cameron urged Muslim communities to do more to ...

Mobeen Azhar reports for BBC World Service in a two-part edition of Heart and Soul about the deadly risk some have faced when criticising Islam in Pakistan. In January 2011 the governor of Punjab ...

A Pakistani police guard said he had no regrets for gunning down Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, calling him an "apostate", as an anti-terrorism court indicted him for the assassination. Mumtaz Qadri, ...