[The News (Pak)] Maulana Rasheed Ahmad, a cleric from Swat, was freed on Saturday after remaining in custody for two weeks.Sources told The News that Rasheed, whose name was first included and then dropped from the NWFP government's most wanted list of 21 Taliban leaders and commanders from Swat, reached his home at Turangzai in the Charsadda district after he was freed in Islamabad.
Rasheed was arrested from his home in Turangzai, where he taught at a Madrassa, by members of an intelligence agency and paramilitary troops on July 11 and shifted to an unknown place. Rasheed, who belongs to the Darushkhela village near Matta in Swat, had earlier been nabbed and cleared by military authorities in Swat. He was also bailed out by a court. The NWFP government first published his name in its most wanted list and announced a monetary reward for his capture, but then removed it, realising that a court had acquitted him.