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 ...

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—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 ...

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.

For the past week Tahir ul Qadri, a Sufi-inspired religious leader with a weakness for extravagant rhetoric and headgear, had been leading a protest in the heart of the capital, Islamabad, calling for ...