Some Pakistani parents have paid as much as 2,00,000 rupees to get their sons back from the late festivities in Afghanistan, but not all can afford to pay such high prices, Pakistani journal The Friday Times reported, quoting jehadis who had managed to return home. To get back their sons, many of whom are jugged in Afghanistan, the parents, who are unable to pay high prices, are pressurising the Tehrik-i-nifaaz-i-Mohammdai (TNM), the organisation which sent thousands of Pakistanis to Afghanistan to wage 'holy war'. The organisation and its leaders are hiding from anxious parents. The TNM is an ultra orthodox organisation in the north-west frontier province of Pakistan, headed by Maulana Sufi Mohammad. Sufi was arrested on his return from Afghanistan and is now in a jail in Dera Ismail Khan.
Hand me a tissue, will you? Life's really tough for the cannon fodder class, ain't it? What's really unusual in this case is that Mullah Sufi is jugged himself. Could this be described as "A holy man's war and a poor sap's fight?" |