Jawad Naqvi

Naqvi was born on 1 February 1963[4] in a Village named Thipra Syedan (ٹھپرہ سیداں) in Haripur Hazara District, Pakistan.

In 2012–2013, Naqvi led a movement to condemn blasphemy of Muhammad named ″Tehreek e Baidari e Ummat e Mustafa SAWW″, which he launched on 7 October 2012 held in Lahore.

Alex Vatanka writes in an article titled "The Guardian of Pakistan's Shia"[8] published by Hudson Institute, a strategic think-tank based in Washington.

For example, Jawad, a prominent activist preacher and the head of a recently-launched Shia seminary in Pakistan, idealizes the theocracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran and calls himself a devoted follower of Khamenei.

He has additionally published articles as well as a book denouncing Iran’s anti-clerical Green opposition movement.27 Not surprisingly, Jawad’s seminary was reportedly established in part with financial support from the Iranian state.

[15][16] This is contrary to the opinion of his teacher, Iranian Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, who said in 2018: The interest system of our banks is a war against God and his messenger (PBUH).

[18] In 2020, after his alleged comparison of Azadari with Tarawih during a lecture, Indian daily and weekly Urdu newspapers Sahafat and Nauroz published articles critical to him.