Summary Sufi Mohammad is facing sedition charges for inciting people to rebel against the state.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) - An anti-terrorism court in Peshawar has indicted Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the chief of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, in the sedition case today (Saturday), Dunya News reported.
ATC judge heard the case at Peshawar Central Jail.
The TNSM chief is accused of sedition over an anti-state speech at Grassy Ground Mingora in 2009.
Sufi Mohammad, father-in-law of Tehreek-e-Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, has expressed ‘no confidence’ over current judicial system, thus, he did not hire any lawyer in the cases against him.
Meanwhile, the court has summoned witnesses in the next hearing.
Sufi Mohammad is known for trying to impose Sharia by force in Swat and leading thousands of fighters to Afghanistan in 2001 to help the Taliban repel U.S.-backed forces..
Earlier in November 2014, an ATC in Peshawar had acquitted him and 30 of his accomplices in two terrorism cases including attacks on a Frontier Corps convoy and Kabal police station in Swat.
However, the accused will continue to be behind bars in another two cases.
