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Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is the founding chairman of Pakistan Awami
Tehreek (PAT or Pakistan Popular Movement) and the patron in chief of
Minhaj-ul-Qur'an International and Minhaj Welfare Foundation.
PAT is a
unique political party of Pakistan which has a network at the grass
root level in all the four provinces and abroad and whose workers,
under the guidance of their leadership, are contributing a great deal
in political as well as social sector of the country.
Minhaj-ul-Quran
Movement International has its offices in more than 80
countries around the world. It is a non-political, spiritual Movement
working for the betterment of all the people living in Pakistan and
abroad in general and the Muslims in particular.
Minhaj Welfare
Foundation is working not only in Pakistan, but in fact
across the globe, for the social and educational development of
mankind. It is an NGO with around 1000 educational
institutions in Pakistan that have an objective of creating social and
political awareness among the masses and also of imparting state of the
art education to Pakistanis. It is also working in the health sector,
building Medicare facilities for the poor, arranging free medical camps
etc. and is also involved in developing vocational institutions.
A man of extraordinary capabilities, Dr. Qadri is a gift of God. He is
a theologian and a theosophist, a scientist and a spiritualist, a
preacher and a reformer, a philosopher and a political thinker, a
thunder among the forces of evil and exploitation and a mild breeze in
the minds of mankind. And above all he is the animating heartbeat of
hundreds of thousands of people around the World.
 As
such Professor Qadri emerges as a person of destiny with his learned
instruction and creative interpretation of Islam providing refreshing
perspectives of the role of Islam in the contemporary World.
Unfortunately, in the past several decades, the universality of Islam
has been obscured by stereotyped conservatism. Dr. Qadri with his
progressive ideas and better contemporary World vision is performing an
important role in the renaissance of Islam. Without doubt, he is a
refreshing tide in humanity.
Doctor Qadri is a distinctive Islamic scholar of international
repute. He has delivered lectures on almost all major contemporary
issues in various national and international conferences, seminars,
gatherings and specially organized programs by universities and
colleges in all the continents of the World. He has singular
distinction of presenting the basic idea of interest free Islamic
banking in the presence of a huge gathering at Lahore on October 7,
1992 in response to challenge that contemporary finance and economy can
not be run with out interest.
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