LAHORE: Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) Chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said on Friday that he would lead a long-march on Islamabad at any cost as per schedule and there should be no illusion in this regard, Geo News reported. Affirming his resolve to lead the march, he told a news conference that the incumbent government had lost legal, moral, and Constitutional authority to govern the country after Thursday's carnage across the country which led to killing of over 100 people.
Dr Qadri refuses to meet Malik Riaz - Press Conference 12-01-2013
The winter fog across Pakistan has brought in its wake a parallel haze in the nation’s perennially stormy political firmament with the arrival of another self-professed “saviour” from Canada — Tahir-ul-Qadri. Serenaded back into the country with an advertisement blitzkrieg that smacked of big bucks, Dr. Qadri sent Pakistan’s politics into a tailspin with a mammoth rally at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan on December 23 where the “political-has-been” served an ultimatum that essentially said “reform or perish.” And, gave the federal government all of three weeks to do his bidding or else reckon with a Long March of four million people onto Islamabad’s Constitution Avenue which would be “turned into a Tahrir Square.”
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri demands formation of impartial election commission
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Campaign season has begun in Pakistan, with elections widely expected by mid-May that, if they proceed peacefully, would represent a democratic milestone in a country plagued by intermittent military rule.
LAHORE: Tehreek Minhaj ul Quran (TMQ) chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri on Saturday refused to hold dialogue with PML-Q leaders Chaudhry brothers for bringing in real estate tycoon Malik Riaz with them.
ISLAMABAD: Three thousand personnel from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Frontier Constabulary and Punjab police will arrive in Islamabad on Saturday as a part of the security arrangements for the Jan 14 long march to be led by the Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Tahirul Qadri, DawnNews reported.
A prime-time ad on the electronic media in Pakistan these days shows Dr Tahirul Qadri, a Canada-based Islamic scholar of Pakistani origin, goading the public into joining his "long march" on the capital Islamabad on Monday.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said on Friday that he would lead a long-march on Islamabad at any cost as per schedule and there should be no illusion in this regard, Geo News reported. Affirming his resolve to lead the march, he told a news conference that the incumbent government had lost legal, moral, and Constitutional authority to govern the country after Thursday's carnage across the country which led to killing of over 100 people.
Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said on Friday in a special press conference regarding long-march on 14th January that he would lead a millions-strong march on Islamabad at any cost. Answering a question, he said that the exclusion of MQM does not matter; long march will be held as per schedule. Affirming his resolve to stage the march, he said that the government in office had lost legal, moral, and Constitutional authority to govern the country after a day of carnage in the country which led to killing of over 100 people.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- To his supporters, Tahir-ul-Qadri is a savior of Pakistan's fragile democracy who will right the country ahead of elections expected to take place this spring. To his detractors, he is a shady religious figure bent on derailing the vote, possibly at the behest of the country's powerful military.
Senior leader of Muslim League (Q) Chaudhary Shujat Hussain and Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Pervez Elahi meet Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri at his residence in Lahore
A Muslim cleric's plan to stage a "million man march" against political corruption in Pakistan's capital city next week has triggered consternation among political parties who fear a plot to derail the country's first ever democratic transfer of power in upcoming elections. Tahir-ul-Qadri, the religious leader who dramatically returned to Pakistan last month after years of living in Canada, has said he will turn Islamabad into "Tahrir Square" – the area in Cairo that became the epicentre of Egypt's revolution last year.
Karachi: Tahirul Qadri, the chief of Minhajul Quran Tehreek on Friday vowed to carry his long march towards Islamabad on January 14, despite the government taking all restricve measures to foil his attempt. “There must not be any doubt, the march would be carried and carried at any cost,” Qadri told a press conference in Lahore.
He earned praise in the West when he came out with a 600-page fatwa in 2010 condemning terrorism, using the same language in the Quran and Islam that militants often use to justify their actions. He’s spoken at such institutions as Georgetown University and the United States Institute for Peace, and held rallies in Britain against extremism.
ISLAMABAD – With the deadline of January 14 nears, Tehreek Minhajul Quran (TMQ) has increased the pace of campaign in federal capital as its Women Wings are visiting homes to convince women to actively participate in the rally.
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