Sufi Mohammad was set free on health grounds and the paperwork for his release was still being processed Tuesday, said defense lawyer Fida Gul. Mohammad, imprisoned since 2009, is also known as ...

The cleric, 93-year-old Sufi Mohammad, is the former chief of the banned pro-Taliban group the Tehrik Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammed, or TNSM. He became widely known after he went to Afghanistan with ...

PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday dismissed the provincial government’s appeal against the acquittal of Tehreek Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad and his 19 ...

A leading Pakistani militant has been released following a peace deal, the Pakistani government says. Maulana Sufi Mohammad was arrested in Pakistan in November 2001 after returning from Afghanistan.

Sufi Mohammad, the founder of one of Pakistan's most extreme religious organizations, was released after spending more than five years in confinement. Ajmal Khan, the deputy superintendent of the ...

PESHAWAR: Sufi Mohammad, chief of Tehrik-i-Nifaaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), was taken to Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital after his health took a turn for the worse. Mohammad is suffering from ...

PESHAWAR: A special anti-terrorism court in Peshawar has formally indicted Sufi Mohammad, chief of the banned terrorist organisation - Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi. Special court judge ...

Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the local cleric who helped negotiate peace between the government and the militants, apparently has little leverage with either party and has kept his own understanding of what ...

The new developments follow talks between local officials and a group headed by Maulana Sufi Mohammad, Fazlullah’s father-in-law and the leader of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz Shariat Muhammadi movement ...

DIR: Security forces arrested the third son of Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shairat Mohammadi Chief Sufi Mohammad from Dir on Tuesday. The other sons of Sufi Mohammad were arrested by security forces some ...