A mobile terminal and method for controlling a touch screen thereof are provided. Enhanced functionality and user convenience are realized by sensing special multi-point touch inputs and carrying out unique scrolling operations in response thereto. Multi-point touch inputs such as a multi-point sweep input and/or a multi-point double tap input are sensed by a controller. In response to a multi-point sweep, a display screen can be scrolled at a faster rate relative to a scroll in response to sensing a single point sweep. This enables a user to rapidly scroll to desired portions of an information screen using e.g., a two finger sweep, and to scroll slower using a single finger sweep at the same sweep rate. In a photo album application, scrolling to other photos in response to a multi-touch input is possible while in a zoomed-in state, while panning is carried out responsive to a single point touch input.