Know more about Tahir-ul-Qadri , the cleric who has stormed Pakistan

Sailesh Chandra [ Updated 16 Jan 2013, 14:57:20 ]

New 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 support of numerous followers that are a result of a widespread educational and preaching institutions that are spread mainly across Punjab and other provinces as well.

He first came to prominence by writing a 2010 fatwa condemning terrorism, reports the Associated Press.