Politico-religious parties form a united group with some overt and covert political aims Leaders of 21 politico-religious parties of the Deobandi school of thought -- including two factions of Jamiat ...

Fazlur Rehman is now the undisputed king of the Deobandi school in Pakistan In his political career of 39 years, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has so far been successful in outmaneuvering, defeating and ...

Following the Taliban’s rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” fears of a certain kind of Islamist ideology being brought back have led a large ...

The religio-political parties of Pakistan are in a state of flux. The rise of jihadi organisations, threatening the dominance of traditional political players on the religious narratives and their ...

Deobandi scholar and patron of Jamiat Dawatul Muslimeen, Maulana Qari Ishaq Gora, has issued a warning to Muslims against the growing trend of online gaming, terming it a form of gambling as per Islam ...

Prominent religious leader and scholar Maulana Aslam Sheikhupuri and his driver were gunned down when assailants on two motorcycles opened fire on the cleric’s car on Sunday afternoon in what was ...

KARACHI: The escalating feud among Deobandi and Barelvi Sunni clerics may open up yet another dangerous front of sectarian violence. “If they can burn my effigy, they can also kill me,” says a worried ...

The Pakistani Taliban's powerful Mehsud group has condemned Thursday’s suicide attack on one of the country’s top clerics, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan ...

As the frightening records of Hindutva chauvinists in India and the Pakistani clerics discussed in this article so strikingly illustrate, leaving religion to the right-wing to monopolise is a sure ...

The problem never was with the madaris as institutions. The problem has always been and still is, with the leadership of the madaris. Being judgmental is always the easier, but the fact remains where ...