Our history, our founder, and the mission that guides us.
Minhaj Youth League (MYL) is the officially recognized youth wing of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI). It was established on 30 November 1988, under the vision of Shaykh-ul-Islam Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri — the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, which he set up in 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan.
Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri founded MYL to give the youth of Pakistan an organized, positive platform — one that channels their energy into character building, education, community service and nation building, rather than leaving them exposed to extremism, drugs and social evils. Since then, MYL has grown into a nationwide (and now global) network of young volunteers active in cities and countries around the world.
Minhaj Youth League (Karachi) is the divisional chapter representing MYL in Karachi — carrying the same mission forward for the youth of the city.
Minhaj-ul-Quran International founded by Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri in Lahore, Pakistan.
Minhaj Youth League established as the official youth wing of MQI.
Active in over 100 countries, engaging youth in education, service and leadership.
Representing MYL at the divisional level, serving the youth of Karachi.
Building the character of youth through spiritual and moral purification.
Promoting education, technical skills and vocational training.
Organizing youth for community welfare and nation-building activities.
Protecting youth from drug abuse, exploitation and extremism.
Providing career counseling and addressing unemployment.
Developing leadership qualities and democratic values among youth.
The spiritual founder and senior leadership whose vision and guidance shape Minhaj Youth League.
Born in 1951 in Jhang, Pakistan, Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is an internationally renowned Islamic scholar and the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI), which today operates in more than 90 countries around the world. He holds advanced degrees in Islamic studies and law, and has served as a professor of Islamic jurisprudence.
He has authored close to 1,000 books on Islamic sciences, Qur'anic studies and theology, and produced comprehensive Qur'anic translations in English and Urdu that reach audiences worldwide. In 2010 he issued a landmark fatwa condemning terrorism and suicide bombings, and he continues to champion interfaith dialogue, peace advocacy and counter-extremism efforts around the globe.
Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri also established Minhaj University and a network of more than 610 schools across Pakistan. It was under his vision that Minhaj Youth League was founded on 30 November 1988, giving the youth of Pakistan an organized, positive platform for character building, education and community service.
Born on 24 October 1982 in Lahore, Prof. Dr. Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri is the President of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) and a Professor of Economics at Minhaj University Lahore, where he also serves as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors. He studied at Aitchison College Lahore, then earned degrees in Economics and Political Science from York University Toronto, an MBA from Sciences Po Paris, a PhD in Economics from Victoria University Melbourne, and an advanced certification in corporate sustainability from Harvard University.
He chairs the Minhaj Education Society, which oversees more than 610 schools and colleges across Pakistan, as well as Aghosh Orphan Care Homes, Al-Mawakhat Islamic Microfinance and Minhaj Halal Certification Pakistan. He has authored around sixty books and more than 100 research articles on Islamic economics, international trade and interfaith dialogue, and has received the Ambassador for Peace Award from both the Universal Peace Federation (UN Austria) and the Tashkent Medical Academy.
A Fellow and Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, he has travelled to more than 50 countries for socio-economic, cultural and religious activities, and continues to write on social, political and economic issues for national and international publications.
Prof. Dr. Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri is the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Minhaj University Lahore, where he also heads the College of Shariah and Islamic Sciences and Minhaj College for Women. He studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at Minhaj University Lahore, earned an LLB from the Pakistan College of Law, an MSc in Management from London's Sir John Cass Business School, and a PhD in Islamic and Western Constitutional Law from the Arab League University in Cairo, Egypt.
His research includes a pioneering comparative study of the Constitution of Medina alongside American, British and European constitutional frameworks, and he has authored more than twenty books in Arabic, English and Urdu on constitutional law, Islamic governance, deradicalization and interfaith harmony. Under his supervision, MQI secured special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and expanded its work to more than 90 countries.
He has delivered keynote addresses at the United Nations in Vienna, UNESCO in Paris and sessions of the World Economic Forum, presenting Islam as a religion of peace at international forums across the world.
Sarim Noor is a Chartered Management Accountant by profession and currently serves as Director of Operations at a Karachi-based nonprofit. His connection to Minhaj-ul-Quran began not through any formal recruitment, but through a book — Iman ka Markaz-o-Mehwar by Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri — given to him by his childhood religious teacher around 2013, which set him on a path of independent study and reflection.
In August 2014 he travelled to Lahore and saw Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri in person for the first time, a moment he describes as deeply transformative. Days later he joined the historic Inqilab March from Lahore to Islamabad, and by 2015 he had formally joined Minhaj Youth League Karachi, beginning as Secretary Social Media and rising over the following years through Secretary Information and Deputy General Secretary.
In August 2026, after more than a decade of volunteer service across media, welfare and youth programmes, Sarim Noor was asked to lead Minhaj Youth League Karachi as its President. He is a life member of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (Life Membership No. 22643), and continues to describe the role as a new chapter in an ongoing journey rather than a destination.
