Cleric

Sydney crisis: Australia's top Muslim cleric condemns hostage situation

Australia's top Muslim cleric has condemned the Sydney cafe hostage taking, saying it is "denounced in Islam".

Pak forces secure capital as protesters get ready for mass sit-in

Pakistan has weathered such protest marches before. Last year tens of thousands of Qadri supporters camped out along the main road in the capital for four days.

Driving can damage a woman's ovaries: Saudi cleric

One of Saudi Arabia's top conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules

Srinagar tense after assailants brutally kill cleric's children

The assailants barged into the house of Iftikhar Ahmad at Iqbalabad in Bemina while he was away in the local mosque to lead the pre-dawn prayers, police said.

Pak forces fire in air to control protest led by cleric

Live television coverage showed forces firing in the air while supporters of Sufi cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri hurled stones at them.

Pak govt begins talks with cleric to stop massive rally

Cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri has said his rally seeking electoral reforms would not be postponed even though he was negotiating with the government.