Swat cleric Sufi Muhammad extended his Thursday deadline for the establishment of the Darul Qaza appellate courts in Malakand to hear appeals against convictions of the new qazi courts set up in line with the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation."The deadline for the establishment of Darul Qaza has been extended for an indefinite period," Amir Izzat Khan, spokesman for Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad, told Daily Times after a decision-making shura approved the move a day after a high-level government delegation made the request.
Separately, Izzat Khan condemned Jamaat Islami (JI) Amir Munawar Hassan for his statement that Sufi -- who had said democracy was a system of Kufr (infidelity) -- was also "a little kafir" for contesting local elections. He told Daily Times that the JI "has earned so many dollars in the Afghan war no one could count them".
He said Sufi repented his past, but Munawar Hassan "is still treading the path of Kufr". The spokesman also told a private TV channel the TNSM believed the constitution of Pakistan was Islamic and that the banned outfit "has no intention to set up a state within state".