Over 2,000 activists of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) demanded on Monday that the government immediately release TNSM founding leader Maulana Sufi Muhammad and enforce Sharia. Sufi Muhammad has been in jail for the last six years. He was arrested on his return from Afghanistan for taking thousands of people to the country to fight the US-led allied forces. Most of his supporters were either killed in the US blitz or went missing. Sufi managed to return but has been in jail since then. His organisation was banned in January 2002. A good number of TNSM activists were arrested. The remaining went underground and the organisation remained non-functional. The organisation held a public meeting at Darora and passed a resolution, demanding implementation of Sharia and calling for a boycott of courts being run under “infidel laws”. A heavy police contingent was deployed at the site of the meeting. Wielding batons, waving black and white flags and wearing black turbans, the activists shouted slogans against the government and the US. The TNSM warned that if the government did not enforce Sharia and release Sufi Muhammad at once, they would come out on to the roads and sacrifice their lives for the purpose.