Lesson from Afghanistan

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AOA,
I hope Maulana is doing some soul searching...

From BBC world news.....
An Islamic leader who led thousands of Pakistanis across the border to support the Taleban in Afghanistan has been arrested, his son has confirmed.
Maulana Sufi Mohammed was detained by paramilitary police on Sunday when he slipped back into Pakistan, his son Fazllulah told Reuters news agency.

Fazllulah said about 1,000 of his father's followers were still missing in Afghanistan.

Mohammed is the head of Tehreek Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammadi, a group which supports the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in Pakistan.

'Robbed by Afghans'

Mohammed and many of his supporters spent much of last week stranded in the border area because Pakistani border guards insisted they leave their weapons behind.



He was arrested near the town of Parachinar, some 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Peshawar.

His supporters, who entered Afghanistan armed with machine guns, rocket launchers, axes and swords, began trying to get home after the Taleban retreated from the north of the country.

Fazllulah told the Associated Press news agency recently that many Afghans tried to rob his father's fighters of their weapons and money.

The Pakistan tribesmen gathered in response to calls for volunteers by local Islamic militants.

Most come from villages inside the North West Frontier Province, which has strong cultural and family ties with Afghanistan.

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More on above, now where did he get millions for his weapons???
From DAWN....

KOHAT, Nov 19: The authorities in the tribal area have arrested the chief of Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi of Malakand Agency, Sufi Mohammad along with his 67 followers who were making attempts to cross into Pakistan for the last four days from the border in the lower Kurram Agency, it has been officially learnt.

The border security forces first disarmed Mr Sufi Mohammad and his followers who were carrying huge quantity of heavy weapons and ammunition.

The authorities recovered 42 klashnikovs, three rocket launchers, 39 hand grenades, a number of pashpashas and other lethal arms besides thousands of rockets and bullets from their possession, assistant political agent of lower Kurram Agency, Wakil Khan told Dawn by telephone on Monday.

The TNSM chief, who crossed into Afghanistan from Malakand Agency last week, fled Kabul four days back and camped near the Kurram Agency border, requesting the government to allow him to go to his native village in the Malakand Agency.

He said that as the areas near his native village had been captured by the forces of the Northern Alliance, he could not go to his home. Therefore he should be allowed to cross from Kurram and that too with his heavy weapons worth millions of dollars.

After his repeated requests, the interior ministry asked the authorities in the Kurram Agency to arrest him and his 67 followers under the 40 frontier crimes regulations and the orders were duly implemented.

The sources said that the TNSM chief was arrested from inside Afghanistan with his 67 followers and lodged in the lockup. The authorities there were awaiting fresh instructions from the interior ministry for initiating inquiry against him for violating the country's laws and crossing into Afghanistan to take part in the fighting between the Taliban and forces of Northern Alliance.