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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In a major development, Pakistani police on Sunday claimed to have arrested Sufi Muhammad, the chief of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), along with his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...