Maulana Sufi Muhammad, the founder of the banned Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) which exercised control over parts of Malakand division in the 90s and 2000s, has passed away. The ...

An anti-terrorism court judge Abdur Rauf Khan ordered the transfer of two sedition cases registered against Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) founder Maulana Sufi Muhammad to sessions ...

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EVEN on a hot day in Chakdara, a town in the Malakand division of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Painda Khan can draw a sizeable crowd. “The government wants to disarm us,” he thunders.

Sufi negotiated a truce with the government in February that imposed Shariah, or Islamic, law in Swat in exchange for an end to two years of fighting. But it was widely seen as an acquiescence to ...

Pakistani authorities lodged a criminal case Sunday against a cleric who helped negotiate a failed peace deal with the Swat Valley Taliban, suggesting the government is determined not to negotiate ...

Pakistan on Sunday announced the arrest of Maulana Sufi Muhammad, the spiritual head of Islamic militants in the country's recently embattled northern Swat valley, prompting officials to claim that ...

Master Paints, Diamond Paints and FG/Din emerging victorious at 6th Allama Iqbal Polo Cup 2025-26, sponsored by Master Paints and being played in the loving memory of the late Sufi Haris, at the ...

Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a peace deal between the militants and the government about six months ago in Swat Valley, was arrested by Pakistan authorities on Sunday from ...

Three competitive matches were decided on the fifth day of the tournament, with Master Paints, Diamond Paints and FG/Din ...