PESHAWAR (Dunya News) - Anti -Terrorism Court Peshawar heard Teemaer Garah case at central jail here on Monday and acquitted Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad due to lack of evidences against him.
Cases under Section 505, 16 MPO, 124 were registered against Sufi Muhammad in 2001 for interfering in the state affairs.
Sufi Muhammad had been acquitted earlier in three cases of Mingora and one of Matta. Thirteen cases were registered against Sufi Muhammad while he had been acquitted in five cases.
It is worth mentioning here that Sufi Muhammad mostly remained under detention during the last decade, the successive governments didnt conduct trial against him.
Initially, he was arrested in Kurram Agency in December 2001 on his return from Afghanistan, where he had gone to lead around 10,000 people in the fight against American forces.
He was tried and sentenced under several sections of PPC and Frontier Crimes Regulation by the relevant political agent.
When Awami National Party formed the last government in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa five years ago, Sufi Mohammad was released under an agreement on April 21, 2008.
There followed another peace agreement between TNSM and the government in February 2009. However, it failed in restore peace in Malakand division.
Later, the security forces began an operation against TNSM activists in Malakand division and thus, leading to the re-arrest of Sufi Muhammad on July 26, 2009, in Sethi Town, Peshawar, along with three sons.
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