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.