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Daily Times
February 23, 2018
I remember as a college going student, initially Sufi Mohammad would pass in a double cabin Toyota, that later became the vehicle of choice of Taliban in Afghanistan and TTP, with a loud speaker mounted atop playing the recitation of Quran and his recorded speeches. When he passed by some wouldÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
February 21, 2018
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday dismissed the provincial government's appeal against the acquittal of Tehreek Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad and his 19 associates by an anti-terrorism court in an over two-decades-old case of the killing of PPP MPA,ÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 19, 2018
It will take about two years to start the plant,” Chief Sanitation Office of the SMC, Sufi Mohammad Akbar told The Indian Express. He also told that door-to-door collection of the waste is in progress. A resident of Batamalo area of the city, Ishfaq Ahmad said, “Waste is inevitable. There is no proper procedureÃÂ ...
Pakistan Observer
February 11, 2018
But in order to set the record straight about Sufi Mohammad's role in engineering the movement for establishment of Shariah in the country, I have to not exactly take issue but to brainstorm further over his hypothesis the other day in a column by Talat Hussain whose views and professionalism I admire andÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
February 8, 2018
Incidents like murder of Naqeebullah will continue to happen if Paktuns don't try to stop them,” he added. Kakajee said that Pakhtuns should get ready to face endless miseries if they failed to stand united and demand justice. He also criticised release of Maulana Sufi Mohammad and said that leaders of theÃÂ ...
The News International
February 4, 2018
The illegal FM radio stations Fazlullah used to gain popularity were first started with Sufi Mohammad. Militancy cannot be defeated so long as we continue to distinguish between different types of militants and send a signal that even someone declaring war on the state can be redeemed. This impunity fromÃÂ ...
Newsweek Pakistan
January 27, 2018
Sufi Mohammad has been acquitted of hatching conspiracy against the state. Meanwhile, the PMLN government in Punjab has sought to appease Hazrat Pir Khwaja Hameeduddin Sialvi from Sargodha, who has been threatening to overthrow the provincial government if sharia law is not imposed.
DAWN.com
January 21, 2018
The chief of proscribed Tehreek-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, was released on January 15 after an imprisonment of over eight years. While he continued to openly propagate his anti-state stance, the successive governments, both federal and provincial, adopted differentÃÂ ...
Geo News, Pakistan
January 19, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Islam prohibits waging war against the Pakistan Army or killing any person who recites the Kalima, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the leader of the banned Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM), said on Friday, days after his release from an eight-year-long incarceration. In an interview to aÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 16, 2018
The cleric, 93-year-old Sufi Mohammad, is the former chief of the banned pro-Taliban group the Tehrik Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammed, or TNSM. He became widely known after he went to Afghanistan with thousands of other armed volunteers to help the Taliban fight against Americans following the 2001ÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
January 8, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday granted bail to Maulana Sufi Mohammad, chief of the banned Tehreek-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), in two cases registered in Swat district more than eight years ago. A single-member bench of Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth accepted two petitionsÃÂ ...
The Cipher Brief
December 31, 1999
9, Pakistan released Sufi Mohammad – a radical anti-U.S. cleric who went to Afghanistan with thousands of volunteers to help the Taliban fight against Americans after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. These incidents are widely seen as a thumb in the eye to the U.S.; Pakistan's defense minister Khurram DastgirÃÂ ...
The News International
February 20, 2017
During the second tenure of Benazir Bhutto, the state crushed Sufi Mohammad's movement within no time when the ageing cleric challenged the state.
The News International
February 16, 2017
The war against the Pakistani state by terror groups was always a mix of insurgency and terror. When Sufi Mohammad raised the flag of rebellion against the state in Swat and wanted to march to Islamabad, he sought control of a larger physical space ...
The News International
February 15, 2017
The Swat-based Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi of Sufi Mohammad Khan, who initiated an extremist movement in the valley, has called itself the Tehreek-e-Islam since it was banned in 2002.
Daily Pakistan
December 29, 2016
TNSM was led by Maulana Sufi Mohammad, who launched its struggle for the implementation of Shari`a in the Malakand region of the NWFP.
Dhaka Tribune
September 19, 2016
The notice was signed by Lt Colonel Sufi Mohammad Moinuddin, director of spectrum management of the commission. It came hours after the seizure of an illegally imported robot and several spying devices at Dhaka international airport.
DAWN.com
July 16, 2016
Of the two more famous himri groups, the first is led by Idrees Khokar and the second by Sufi Mohammad Ali of the Moreed village.
The Nation
April 29, 2016
Third, before formally and systematically launching Talibanisation inside Afghanistan, the Taliban led by Molvi Sufi Mohammad, had worked on a pilot project of imposing "Sharia" in the Malakand division of Khyber Pakhtukhwa province in Pakistan. When ...
gulfnews.com
March 23, 2016
In prison he met Sufi Mohammad, "the elder statesman of Pakistan's Taliban". He was in the hospital wing and Gosling was visiting somebody else.
The News on Sunday
February 21, 2016
It was late 2001 when Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the head of the Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) in Malakand division, inspired several thousands of his black-turbaned followers to accompany him to Afghanistan to join the Afghan Taliban inÃÂ ...
The News International
January 28, 2016
While Sufi Mohammad's diagnosis found the judicial system to be at the root of the problem, for Mansoor it is the education system.
Greater Kashmir
January 23, 2016
Some students in the campus- my friends, ardent supporters of Abdullah on the advice of Sufi Mohammad Akbar called on the Lion, with a plea not to target students.
Scholars and Rogues
January 2, 2016
Maulana Sufi Mohammad is in Swat today. The media are here too. The city is witnessing a lot of rush. The city's hustle and bustle has returned.
