Pakistan on Sunday announced the arrest of Maulana Sufi Muhammad, the spiritual head of Islamic militants in the country's recently embattled northern Swat valley, prompting officials to claim that ...

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A pro-Taliban leader who sent thousands of fighters against the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan was freed by Pakistan on Monday, and an official said his militant group signed a peace deal with the ...

IT appears as if time has finally arrived in Pakistan to deal with the Taliban in a definite manner and state, both by action and word, as to who is who and what is what. The Pakistan government and ...

TIMERGARA Maulana Sufi Muhammad, chief of the defunct Tehrik Nifaz-e- Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), accused the government of violating the Swat peace deal by launching military operations in Maidan, ...

In a major development, Pakistani police on Sunday claimed to have arrested Sufi Muhammad, the chief of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), along with his ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in southeastern Pakistan. Soon ...