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India-Pakistan
Sufi, his sons being grilled in Peshawar prison
2009-07-31
I think they're done on this side, boss.
Okay. Flip em over.

Intelligence agencies have started questioning Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad and his two sons at the Peshawar Central Prison.

The provincial government has barred visitors from meeting Sufi and his sons in the prison as a security measure. A prison official told Daily Times on condition of anonymity that the agencies had started the interrogation on Wednesday (July 29). He said agents were questioning Sufi and his sons in sessions of three to four hours.Police and intelligence agencies arrested Sufi Mohammad and his two sons, Ziaullah and Rizwanullah on July 26, from a rented house in Peshawar's Sethi Town. The TNSM chief was moved to the prison on July 27 after he and his sons were charged under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).

'Sufi Muhammad is the main culprit. He is responsible for militancy and violence in Malakand division and he will be brought to justice," Mian Iftikhar, the NWFP information minister, had said shortly after Sufi was arrested. Sufi was released from a prison in Dera Ismail Khan on April 21 last year, where he had been detained after he returned from Afghanistan after assisting the Taliban fighting international troops there. He signed a peace deal with the NWFP government on February 6 this year, leading to the brief imposition of Taliban's version of sharia in Malakand division.
It wuz Sufi who said: "I just make the agreements. I don't keep 'em!"
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