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Tahirul Qadri has deep Lucknow roots

Lucknow, Jan 17: The Uttar Pradesh capital may be hundreds of miles away from Islamabad but the two cities have a connect of sorts in the fiery cleric Tahirul Qadri.The 61-year-old former professor of international



Qadri is now rallying thousands in the Pakistani capital demanding the ouster of the government.



While in Lucknow, Qadri freely interacted with veterans of the old city and visited many places like the Farangi Mahal, Nakkhas, Chowk and Jhawai Tola where his father is believed to have stayed.

Qadri's visit to Lucknow was part of his four-week Indian tour. He met several eminent Muslim scholars of Lucknow and underlined that terrorism has no place in Islam.

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