The condition of the ailing leader of the banned Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), Maulana Sufi Muhammad, is not serious, a senior doctor at the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) told Daily Times on Saturday.
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The Maulana was shifted to the HMC on Friday after he was diagnosed with having diabetes. “He is diabetic and his condition is not serious,” the doctor said on condition of anonymity.
The shifting of the 75-year-old TNSM chief to the hospital led to speculations that the government is considering using him to pacify the situation in the troubled Swat district where his son-in-law Maulana Fazlullah is leading a rebellion against the government. NWFP caretaker Home Minister Shazada Gustasap said on Friday the government had no plans to involve Sufi in any move to counter the insurgency in Swat.
Many think that the government plans to release the Maulana and that is why he has been shifted to Peshawar on a military helicopter from the Dera Ismail Khan jail where he had been imprisoned since December 2001. |