...Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) is a Pak turban group whose objective is to enforce their definition of Sharia law in Pakistain whether anybody wants it or not. It was founded by Sufi Muhammad in 1992, and was banned by President Musharraf in January, 2002 after Sufi dispatched several thousand yokels to Afghanistan to fight the infidel and ended up with most of them killed or captured and held for ransom. In 2007 TNSM took over Swat, which shows how well the banningworked. TNSM is the Pony League of Islamic militancy..
Maulana Sufi Muhammad and several others.
"Youse got nuttin' on me, coppers! Da witnesses is all dead!"
It is learnt that the court presided over by Asim Imam, a judge of the ATC at Swat, also ordered to attach salaries of the serving coppers for their failure to appear as witnesses. The court fixed May 23 for the next hearing.
Due to security reasons, the judge has been conducting trial in different cases against Maulana Sufi Mohammad and scores of his associates inside the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Central Prison. These cases were mostly registered in cop shoppes of Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
and Lower Dir districts over 15 years ago.
Advocate Adil Majeed appeared for Maulana Sufi Mohammad, who had earlier declined to engage a counsel following which the court ordered that counsel should be arranged for him on state expense.
It is learnt that at the very outset of the proceedings, the court was informed that the prosecution witnesses including DSP Sanober Khan, sub-inspector Sher Gul, Alamzeb Khan and others did not turn up. The court took exception to it and issued their arrest warrants.
The court was informed that some of these witnesses had already been retired from police service.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
in a bail petition of a senior member of TNSM, Maulana Khalid, the court ordered production of his medical report. The petitioner has requested for on bail on medical grounds as he claimed to be suffering from different ailments.
These cases were mostly registered under section 302 (murder), 120-A (criminal conspiracy), 120-B (punishment for criminal conspiracy), 186 (obstructing public servant from doing his job) and some other sections of Pakistain Penal Code.
Some of these cases were registered in 1994 when the tehrik had stepped up its movement for the enforcement of Sharia in Malakand Division. During the same period thousands of activists had blocked the Peshawar-Swat highway at Malakand Top for several days.
Later, its armed supporters had occupied several government installations in Swat.
To dislodge them from those installations the then government of Pakistain People`s Party had launched an operation.
One of the cases was registered at Mingora cop shoppe pertaining to the killing of PPP MPA Badiuz Zaman at a hotel in Swat allegedly by TNSM activists.