Sentence examples for mullah from inspiring English sources
noun
A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.
But a less publicised hunt is being conducted there for some of the top leaders of the Taliban movement, who remain at large and are reportedly hiding in the stony mountains of the province, from which many of them hail.The reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar was raised in the area by his uncle, the local mullah in a village just outside Deh Rawud.
Citizens held vigils in cities around the country, including outside parliament in Islamabad, voicing demands that included the arrest of a notorious Taliban-sympathising mullah in the capital, the regulation of religious seminaries and the end of the misuse of Pakistan's much-criticised blasphemy laws.
But their mullah, who at one stage was flown to Kabul on a NATO plane, was an impostor who pocketed the cash he was given.
Nonetheless, every decade or two, the British faced a major tribal revolt, typically led by a charismatic mullah.
In western Iraq, Mr Sadr's men have moved into Kadhimiya, site of a famous Shia shrine, where a mullah last week gave liquor dealers two days to shut down.For now, Mr Allawi, a secular Shia, seems loth to have a showdown that might cause more mayhem in Shia ranks.
The elders included several camp representatives — there are 12 here — the fathers of children who had died and the camp mullah, Mualavi Musafer, also a refugee from Helmand.
While the civil-society protests were overwhelmingly polite and attended by many women, the mullah-led protests were angry, overwhelmingly male, and, in Karachi, violent.
Though Iran's constitution allows for an elected president and Consultative Assembly, legislation must be vetted by a mullah-dominated Council of Guardians to make sure that it complies with Islamic law as they see it.So make it up as you go alongThis is hardly democracy as the West understands it.
The 10 men arrested in September last year, in an operation involving multiple security agencies, were accused of being part of a group tasked by Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah with killing a series of high-profile people, including Yousafzai.
After the fall of Kabul there were reports that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, was negotiating a deal with local Pushtun tribal elders that would allow him to escape from the city, but nothing came of it.
He judges that among the Taliban are "reasonable people" ready to be guided by instructions from their leader, Mullah Omar, should he sue for peace.Back channels between the Afghan Taliban and the government in Kabul, the Afghan capital, have long existed, yet previous hopes of talks have foundered.
