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Sufi Mohammad	Sufi Mohammad	Tanzim-e-Nifaz Shariat Mohammadi	India-Pakistan	20030602
	Sufi Mohammad	Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi	India-Pakistan	20020420
	Sufi Mohammad	Tehrik Nifaz Shariah Mohammadi	India-Pakistan	20011102
	Sufi Mohammad	Tehrike Nifaze Shariate Mohammadei	India-Pakistan	20060403	Link
	Sufi Mohammad	Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi	Afghanistan/South Asia	20050902

India-Pakistan

Police begin probe as two personnel martyred in Kohat militant attack

2023-04-06

[Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police have begun an investigation into the martyrdom of two Kohat coppers in Monday night bully boy attack.

Also, an official of the traffic police was martyred in a gun attack in Lower Dir district, while a bully boy was killed and two injured in a police crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
district.

SHO of Kohat’s Mohammad Riaz Shaheed cop shoppe Islamuddin told Dawn that police personnel Ayaz and Qasim were attacked by holy warriors on the Bannu Road in Mirozai area on Monday night when they’re on the way to the Abu Bakar and Hamza mosques to perform security duty for taraveeh prayers.

He said the bullets fired by the attackers pierced the helmets and bulletproof vests worn by the coppers.

The SHO said funeral prayers for the dear departed were offered at the police lines on Tuesday.

Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur formed a two-member committee to probe the bully boy attack.

A notification issued by the Central Police Office said a fact-finding committee comprising DSP (Logistics) at the CPO Sanaullah and sub-inspector Safdar Khan would look into the attack and submit its report within a week.

It added that the committee would visit the place of crime, ascertain the kind of weapons used to kill police personnel, and examine the helmets and jackets issued to the dear departed.

It will check what "security gadgets" the two police personnel received from the department for permanent and temporary use.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
a motorcyclist shot a traffic police constable dead in the Talash Bazaar of Lower Dir district and fled.

The police identified the dear departed as Bakht Zamin, a 35-year-old resident of Ouch Sharqi, and said he was attacked while performing duty at a busy intersection.

They said they had started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started a search for the gunman.

Local SHO Tauhid Khan told Dawn that Bakht Zamin was a victim of assassination.

The dear departed’s family claimed that it had no enmity.

Also, the Dera Ismail Khan police said it killed a bully boy group’s member and injured others in a pre-dawn operation in the Kot Essa area in the wee hours of Tuesday.

The operation was launched by the provincial police’s Albarq Unit at 3am in the jurisdiction of the Daraban cop shoppe on a tip-off about the presence of bully boy commander Mazhar Gandapur.

The police said bully boy Ansar Abbas, a resident of Kot Essa area, was killed in an exchange of fire with police, while other members of the bully boy group, including its commander Mazhar Gandapur, fled.

District police officer Rauf Qaiserani toldDawnthat Mazhar Gandapur and another bully boy were believed to be maimed by the police gunfire.

He said the sub-machine guns snatched from the police were also seized along other unlicensed arms.

Last month, a police constable was killed and two others injured by the same bully boy group in the area.

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Afghanistan

Islamabad Hands Over Two Pakistani Taliban Commanders to Afghan Taliban

2022-05-15

[KhaamaPress] According to reliable sources in Islamabad, the country has entrusted two senior Tehrik-e-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain (Pak Taliban) commanders, Moslem Khan and Mahmoud Khan, to Kabul to enable discussions.

The two senior Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain commanders surrendered to the Afghan Taliban in the prospect of being released if Pak military talks succeeded with the group, according to an informed source who spoke on the condition of anonymity to Radio Azadi.

Two prominent Pak Taliban commanders were arrested in 2009 during a Pak military operation in Swat, where they were big shots of Mullah Fazlullah

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Afghanistan

Who defeated DAESH?

2019-11-21

How very florid — and yet it fails to persuade.

[ALEMARAHENGLISH] The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

...the formal name of the Taliban...

under the leadership of the martyred Amir ul Mumineen Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansoor (May Allah have mercy on him) started the fight against the Khawarij

...Khawarij is a fancy Muslim word for Splitters!!1! ...

known as ISIS after they attacked innocent Afghans and tried to impose barbarism over the communities in different parts of Afghanistan.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers the defense of Afghans and Afghanistan against all the enemies whether internal or external as a binding obligation and has shown the entire world that the struggle and fight of the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate is for the defense and independence of Afghanistan.

When the fitnah of ISIS ‐ launched by foreign intelligence agencies and nurtured by the local stooge regime ‐ started their activities by targeting mosques, weddings, public gatherings and other political events to discredit the Mujahideen and tarnish the image of Jihad and Mujahideen, the wisdom of the leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan played central role in countering these mercenaries with ideological and military mobilization. This scourge was exterminated in the southern parts of Afghanistan while those holed up in the northern parts of Afghanistan after being routed out by the forces of the Islamic Emirate were rescued in regime helicopters. Following crushing defeats around the country, the remnants of ISIS gathered in eastern provinces of Nangarhar

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India-Pakistan

Sufi Mohammad loses support in Malakand

2018-07-23

[DAWN] Maulana Sufi Mohammad of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Mohammadi had once many supporters and sympathisers in native land but that is no more the case.

Unlike the past when the radical holy man declared Western democracy un-Islamic, the people of Malakand division are actively campaigning for their favourite election candidates.

Read: The nine lives of Sufi Mohammad

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Afghanistan

TTP appoints Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud as chief after Fazlullah's killing

2018-06-24

[DAWN] The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) announced it had appointed a new leader on Saturday after the Lion of Islam group confirmed for the first time its former chief Mullah Fazlullah

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India-Pakistan

Malala Yousafzai lives to witness the killing of her Taliban assassin

2018-06-18

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Speculations are high on whether Pak Malala Yousafzai

...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
- the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize since its founding in 1901- would consider receiving the news of the killing of Pakistain Taliban
...Arabic for students...
chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...

in a US dronezap in Afghanistan on Thursday night, as a gift on Eid al-Fitr, as this man was behind her attempted liquidation six years ago.

Pakistain Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, 44, was killed with five other bully boyz when missiles slammed into the car they were driving, hours before Afghanistan’s Taliban began a three-day cease fire.

Fazlullah, who was famous for his nickname "Mullah Radio" for the abundance of broadcasted violent hard boy speeches on Voice of Valley radio in Pakistain, is known for extremism and imposing of Sharia by force there.

In 2014, he ordered an attack that killed 132 students at an army-run school in Pakistain’s Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Malala was 15 years old when Fazlullah ordered her liquidation when she was on a bus and was stopped by Talibs and called by her name, then with a gun directed to her face she was hit by three bullets, shattering her forehead. She stayed in a coma for a week before being trnsfered to the UK for intense treatment and rehabilitation.

Three days following this brutal attack, 50 Moslem holy mans in Pakistain issued a fatwa (religious edict) denouncing the actions of those who ordered her killing due to her school education, while the Taliban continued to threaten her father for putting his daughter in school.

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India-Pakistan

TTP confirms commander Sajna killed in drone strike last week

2018-02-13

[DAWN] A Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pak (TTP) spokesperson has confirmed the death of TTP commander Khan Said Sajna in a recent US dronezap.

Azam Tariq Mehsud said Commander Sajna was killed in last Thursday's strike in a village along the Pak-Afghan border. He said another commander, Mufti Noor Wali, has now been appointed in Sajna's place.

Tariq says Wali enjoys the backing of Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
, the leader of the TTP who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan.

Sajna, 36, was believed to be involved in an attack on a Naval base in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and is also credited with criminal masterminding a 2012 jailbreak in which the Taliban freed 400 inmates in the northwestern city of Bannu.

"Sajna had no basic education, conventional or religious, but he was battle-hardened and had experience of fighting in Afghanistan," an official had said earlier.

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India-Pakistan

Islam prohibits waging war against Pakistan Army: Sufi Mohammad

2018-01-20

[GEO.TV] Islam prohibits waging war against the Pakistain Army or killing any person who recites the Kalima, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the leader of the banned Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM
...Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) is a Pak militant 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 banning worked. TNSM is the Pony League of Islamic militancy..
), said on Friday, days after his release from an eight-year-long incarceration.

In an interview to a private news channel, the ailing 93-year-old holy man said the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) possess all signs of being apostates (Khawarij) and that the only punishment TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah

...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
deserves is the death penalty
.

He also said that the country would have been divided if it was not for the Pakistain Army, whose soldiers are like Mujahideen (holy warriors).

Earlier this month, the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court accepted Sufi Mohammad's bail plea and after his lawyer pleaded for his release as he had served a long time in prison despite his old age and deteriorating health condition.

This was his first interview to the media after his release.

Sufi Mohammad is the father-in-law of Mullah Fazlullah, the runaway head of the banned TTP who has waged war against Pakistain and is the country's most-wanted terrorist.

Further criticizing the activities of the TTP, Sufi Mohammad said that it is strictly prohibited in Islam to kill women and kiddies, and that those responsible for the massacre of children at the Army Public School in Peshawar were worse than infidels.

He also regretted the 2012 terrorist attack on Pak Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousufzai, saying she was a child and should not have been attacked, and added that he is not opposed to education of children. The TSNM chief also added that he had raised awareness in writing regarding permission for children's education.

Mohammad, who belongs to Maidan in Lower Dir district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, is facing trial in at least two cases registered in 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...
district including one in 2009 and another in 1995. He has been accused of committing sedition, waging war against Pakistain, and several other offences, and has previously termed the government, the Constitution of Pakistain, and the judicial system un-Islamic.

In the first case, the TNSM chief was charged under Sections 120-B (hatching criminal conspiracy), 121-A (waging war against Pakistain), 124-A (sedition), 148 and 149 (rioting) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Pakistain Penal Code.

The other case was registered at Swat's Kabal Police Station in June 1995 when Maulana Sufi Muhammad and his supporters tried to impose 'Shariah' in Malakand division with force. He was charged under Sections 121 and 121-A (war against Pakistain), 324 (attempted murder), 341 (wrongful restraint), and 353 (obstructing public servant) of the IPC.

Previously, the holy man was incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on November 20, 2001 in

Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
when he was returning from Afghanistan where he had gone along with thousands of his supporters to wage war against US forces.

He was released in April 2008 when the ANP-led provincial government entered into a peace deal with the TNSM in which the latter disassociated itself from attacks on security forces and government installations and promised to help it in restoring the writ of the state there.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
Sufi Mohammad was arrested again after failure of the peace deal and the launching of the military operation in Malakand division. The government also restored the old cases against him and his followers.

His lawyer, Fida Gul, says that apart from the two cases, his counsel has already been acquitted or granted bail in 11 cases previously filed against him.

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India-Pakistan

PHC orders release of TNSM's Maulana Sufi Muhammad on bail

2018-01-09

[DAWN] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar

...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court (PHC) on Monday ordered the release of Maulana Sufi Muhammad, chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM
...Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) is a Pak militant 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 banning worked. TNSM is the Pony League of Islamic militancy..
), after accepting his bail application.

Justice Waqar Sath heard the case and accepted the TNSM chief's bail application.

On July 30, 2009, a 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...
cop shoppe had booked the TNSM chief for hate speech against the government.

In that speech, Sufi Muhammad had termed the Constitution "un-Islamic" and demanded enforcement of the Sharia.

Situationer: The nine lives of Sufi Mohammad

In today's hearing, Sufi Muhammad claimed that he should be released "as his health is deteriorating with each passing day."

The TNSM chief has been kept imprisoned since his arrest in 2009, when the final phase of a military operation against snuffies was launched in the Malakand region.

A number of cases were registered against Sufi Muhammad; however, in each case, witnesses against him had either died or could not be traced.

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India-Pakistan

Droning Mullah Fazlullah

2016-06-19

[DAWN] IN Pakistain, anger has greeted the killing of Afghan Taliban head, Mullah Mansour, by an American drone on Pak territory. When senior US officials visited army chief Gen Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
at the Rawalpindi GHQ, he expressed strong displeasure at the violation of Pakistain’s air space and demanded that Tehrik-e-Taliban head, Mullah Fazlullah

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Afghanistan

US drone strike kills 15 TTP militants in Afghanistan

2015-09-12

[DAWN] DERA KHAN: A US drone strike killed at least 15 snuffies associated with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in Afghanistan's Gomal district on Wednesday, intelligence officials said on Friday, as part of an intensifying drone campaign against Talibs in Afghanistan.

Three intelligence officials confirmed Wednesday's strike in an area bordering the South Wazoo region in Pakistain.

"Fifteen dead bodies of killed snuffies will be shifted soon to their native areas in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
," one of the officials said.

They confirmed that the 15 forces of Evil belonged to the Gandapur faction of the TTP led by Mullah Fazlullah

This is a good thing.

The strikes come a week after Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed to end a blame game over a spate of Death Eater attacks and work to restore trust.

Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
made closer ties with Pakistain a priority when he took office last year, hoping Islamabad could push Afghan Taliban leaders to the negotiating table to end Afghanistan's long war.

The relationship appeared to yield fruit in July with groundbreaking official peace talks with the Death Eaters.

But after confirmation of the death of the group's founder Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
, the process was suspended and the Taliban launched a wave of attacks in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
, killing more than 50 people and souring relations between Pakistain and Afghanistan.

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India-Pakistan

The final battle?

2015-08-22

[DAWN] THE so-called final phase of Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
is under way in North Wazoo, 14 months after the operation began.

Thus far it appears the military has reclaimed much of the terrain that it had set out to do and it is certainly the case that the rate and intensity of terrorist attacks inside the country have gone down since the operation began.

But, as ever, in the long war against militancy, immediate successes can be undone if the next steps are not prosecuted with equal vigour and intensity.

To begin with, the fight in the Shawal region is expected to be very tough, according to the military and what the turbans themselves have suggested. It is not so much a last stand by the turbans as the fact that the region is difficult for armies to operate in, the dense foliage and mountainous terrain putting small groups of turbans at an advantage, at least when it comes to evading the full force of the military power that is to be used against them.

This challenge ahead is indeed cause for sombre reflection even as the country remembers those who have already fallen in the war against militancy.

The battle will also be complicated by the Afghan question. Earlier, too many turbans escaped into Afghanistan and while the military has repeatedly claimed that this is less likely to occur in the current fight, only the days and weeks ahead will confirm whether that is in fact true.

Unhappily, Pak-Afghan relations have taken a downward turn yet again in recent weeks and it remains to be seen how much cooperation is extended by the Afghan side to interdict or help capture North Waziristan-based turbans who flee into Afghanistan.

As the sorry tale of Mullah Fazlullah

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