Pakistan's hard-line cleric and leader of the opposition Maulana Fazlur Rehman has termed the use of condoms in the name of safe sex and population control 'un-Islamic'.

The use of condoms has encouraged unmarried young people to have sex, he was quoted as saying in Lahore [Images].

Rehman, who is also the leader of the Islamist alliance Muttahida Majlis-e Amal, made the comments during a meeting with Commonwealth Medical Trust Director Marianne Haslegrave on Tuesday.

He welcomed the measures taken by the CMT to promote a reproductive health system in Pakistan. He, however, expressed reservations about its policies, which, he said, were 'not in line with the Islamic religion and culture'.