| [Pak Daily Times] The Arab world's influential holy man Yusuf al Qaradawi on Saturday urged Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak to step down for the good of the country, as his ouster was the only solution to Egypt's crisis. The widely respected Sunni Mohammedan holy man, who holds Egyptian and Qatari nationalities, also encouraged Egyptians to keep up peaceful protests, in an interview with al Jazeera television. "President Mubarak, I advise you to depart from Egypt. There is no other solution to this problem but for Mubarak to go," Qaradawi said. The holy man, a resident of Qatar who has a popular programme on al Jazeera to advise on Islamic laws, heads the International Union for Mohammedan Scholars. He is considered one of the world's top Sunni preachers. |