Tag: Clerics

Prominent clerics from the Deoband school of thought have urged the government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to declare ceasefire in the name of...

Around 150 religious scholars from around the country backed the long march announced by Pakistan Awami Tehrik leader Tahirul Qadri. Clerics and spiritual heads...

Cleric Abdul Khaliq Faridi used to think HIV/Aids was a mortal sin. But today, he educates thousands about a disease that is on the...

Russia has detained four men suspected of organising an assassination attempt on the Islamic leader of Russia’s main Muslim region and killing another top...

Calling Naseeb Khan’s murder an extra-judicial killing, clerics belonging to various religious parties asked the ANP-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to expose those involved...

British author Salman Rushdie on Saturday attacked growing intolerance in India as he returned to the country for the first time since Islamic activists...

Afghanistan’s top religious council on Friday demanded that those responsible for the burning of copies of holy Quran at a US military base should...

Malaysia’s highest Islamic body has issued an edict forbidding foreign exchange trading by Muslim individuals, saying such speculation violates Islamic law. The National Fatwa Council...

Clerics on Wednesday announced to cooperate with the government and health staff in eradicating polio from Lower Dir. The announcement was made during a press...

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has sought support of Ulema and religious scholars in removing misconceptions regarding negative impacts of polio vaccine on human...

Fifty religious and political parties of the right wing are likely to revive a political platform like the defunct Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) for upcoming...

The Lahore Police should implement the code of ethics, which has been chalked out with the support and assistance of various schools of thought,...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked the country's religious elders to use their influence to sway Islamist insurgents not to use turbans to hide...

ISLAMABAD - Hard-core religious parties of the country on Wednesday said they were mulling to launch a movement against what they called a "surprise release" of the US national Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in January.
In reaction to the development, Sahibzada Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair, head both of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Tahaffaz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz, said the circumstances prove that the heirs of those killed by the US national were pressured to

LAHORE - All prominent religious parties and groups, who earlier led protests against the proposed changes in blasphemy law and never bothered to deplore the murder of Salmaan Taseer, raised voice against the killing of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti without mincing their words. "Deplorable, absolutely deplorable, and a conspiracy to malign Pakistan. Islam advises us to protect lives and property of all minorities at all costs.
It's a government duty to give

QUETTA - Three people were killed in separate incidents of firing in Balochistan on Monday. According to police, unknown armed men riding a motorbike targeted Mir Alam, the son of a religious scholar of Zikri sect, in Turbat town of Kechh district.
As a result, he received multiple bullet injuries and succumbed to his injured before receiving medical attention.
The motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained. Two persons were killed in an armed clash between two

LAHORE - At the beginning of the sacred month of Muharram, a month of sorrow and grief, Maulana Fida Hussain Hafizabadi of Muridke gets very busy. He does not even have time for his close relatives and had to ask his son-in-law to wait until the end of April to see him.
Hafizabadi is not the sole example of such a pressing schedule, as hundreds of clerics from various sects travel across the country during the months of Muharram, Safar and Rabi-ul-Awwal. On the face of it, the