updated Mon. April 22, 2024
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The News International (blog)
February 20, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday dismissed the state (provincial government) appeal against acquittal of Tanzeem Nifaz Sharait-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad and his associates in the terrorism and murder case of a former MPA. Interestingly, the appealÃâà...
Pakistan Today
January 23, 2018
Sufi Muhammad, the disgraced leader of the proscribed TNSM, has been released after his plea bargain was deemed of an appropriate length. “Well, he was bound to be released,” said ... The Pakistan Fashion Design Council has also weighed in on the issue. “Flirty, yet not prudish, the plea was perfect,”Ãâà...
Pakistan Observer
January 20, 2018
He said the chief of the militant outfit deserved a death penalty as punishment for causing harm to the innocent and Islam. He said the movement for ... “Mullah Fazlullah [Sufi's son-in-law] took over the control of the TNSM and established contacts with Afghan Taliban,” he added. This was his first interviewÃâà...
Pakistan Today
January 19, 2018
Days after he was released from an eight-year-long imprisonment, Maulana Sufi Muhammad on Friday said Islam prohibits waging war against the Pakistan army or killing any person who recites the Kalima. Speaking to a private news channel, the leader of the banned Tehreek Nifaaz-e-ShariatÃâà...
The Guardian
January 16, 2018
Sufi Muhammad, 93, is a former chief of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a banned pro-Taliban group. He became widely known ... Muhammad is the father-in-law of Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. Muhammad's lawyerÃâà...
DAWN.com
January 15, 2018
Octogenarian cleric and chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) Maulana Sufi Muhammad was released from jail after his arrest and ... In 2015, news had surfaced about Sufi Muhammad issuing an informal decree against Mulla Fazlullah-led Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),Ãâà...
Long War Journal
January 9, 2018
Mohammed led the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammed (TNSM), or the Movement for the Enforcement of Mohammed's Law, a Taliban-like group that operated in the Malakand Division, a region in northwestern Pakistan. He recruited thousands of fighters to battle US forces in Afghanistan in the earlyÃâà...
Daily Pakistan
January 9, 2018
A single bench headed by Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth issued the bail to TNSM chief, who is the father-in-law of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Swat head ... In 2015, it emerged that Sufi Muhammad had issued an informal decree against Mulla Fazlullah-led Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), declaring thatÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
January 8, 2018
The TNSM leader belongs to Maidan in Lower Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was arrested in October 2001 as he crossed the border into Pakistan with a group of armed men, accused of sending hundreds to fight against the US-led forces in Afghanistan. But he was released in 2008 under a peaceÃâà...
The Nation
September 5, 2017
September 6th is celebrated by the nation as The Defence Day of Pakistan to commemorate Pakistan's finest hour when its armed forces frustrated a .... Operation Zarb-e-Azb began in 2014 against the last stronghold of the militants in North Waziristan after peace talks with the Taliban leaders failed.
