Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammed

Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammed (Movement for the Defence of Mohammad's Law) (TNSM) is a Pakistani Islamic political group. Formally, the government of Pakistan bans it as a terrorist organization, but negotiates with it as a useful contact in the Swat Valley conflict. Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani described the relationship as

Pakistan has not done a peace deal with the Taliban in Swat Valley. Period. Pakistan has negotiated an arrangement, locally, with the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammedi of Swat. The president of Pakistan has not signed the agreement and not approved the agreement yet because he’s waiting for the TNSM to fulfill its end of the bargain, which was, essentially, to make sure that the Taliban — whose leader happens to be his son-in-law — they do not continue to use force.

TNSM's leader, Sufi Mohammed, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, “I believe the Taliban government formed a complete Islamic state, which was an ideal example for other Muslim countries," just days before the Malakand Accord was signed.

He was reported to have said that opponents of shari'a in Pakistan were wajib-ul-qatl (worthy of death)

The Pakistani government released him in 2007, as part of what the Pakistani operations chief,Ahmed Shuja Pasha ,said was part of a "political effort"; "Brute use of force alone would only take us backwards."

Background

The Canadian government said it first came to notice in 1994 when it led an armed uprising in support of shari'a in Malakand Agency, in an uprising that killed 40 people. "In 1995, eight TNSM militants and a policeman were killed in land clashes in Swat, NWFP. According to The Herald, some observers report that as much as 50 per cent of the group's membership may consist of criminals.