In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “founder of tehreek-e-nafaz-e-shariat-e-mohammadi”. Today it says “pakistani sunni salafi cleric and militant”.
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Pakistani cleric and leader of the Islamist TNSM (1933–2019) Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan ( Urdu : صوفی محمد بن الحضرت حسن ; born 1933 – 11 July 2019) was a Pakistani Sunni Salafi cleric and militant, and the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a militant group (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in 2002) vying for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan . It operated mainly in the Dir , Swat , and Malakand districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa . Sufi Muhammad was jailed for sending thousands of volunteers to Afghanistan to fight the U.S. intervention in 2001 . However, he was freed in 2008 after he renounced violence. He was the father-in-law of Mullah Fazlullah , who assumed the leadership of TNSM during Sufi's imprisonment. He was described by BBC as a "follower" of Saudi Arabia 's Wahhabi Salafist Islamic school of thought, and by the Jamestown Foundation as one of the "active leaders" of Jamaat-e-Islami in the 1980s.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan , born in Dir , is the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a Pakistani militant organisation with Wahabi and Deobandi learnings (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in 2002) vying for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan . It operates mainly in the Dir , Swat , and Malakand districts of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). Sufi Muhammad was jailed for sending thousands of volunteers to Afghanistan to fight the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. However, he was freed in 2008 after he renounced violence. He is the father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah , who assumed the leadership of TNSM during Muhammad's imprisonment Lakshman, Kanchan (9 July 2003). Contemporary South Asia . 16 (1): 99– 100 . BBC News - Pakistan agrees Sharia law deal
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Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan , born in Maidan , Lower Dir District , is the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a Pakistani militant organisation (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in 2002) vying for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan.It operates mainly in the Dir region , Swat , and Malakand districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa . Sufi Muhammad was jailed for sending thousands of volunteers to Afghanistan to fight the U.S. intervention in 2001. However, he was freed in 2008 after he renounced violence. He is the father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah , who assumed the leadership of TNSM during Sufi's imprisonment. He is described by BBC as a "follower" of Saudi Arabia 's Wahhabi Islamic school of thought, and by the Jamestown Foundation as one of the "active leaders" of Jamaat-e-Islami in the 1980s.BBC News - Pakistan agrees Sharia law deal "Pakistan's militant Islamic groups" .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan (1933 – 11 July 2019) was a Pakistani cleric and Islamist militant, the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a militant organisation (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in 2002) vying for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan. It operates mainly in the Dir region , Swat , and Malakand districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa . Sufi Muhammad was jailed for sending thousands of volunteers to Afghanistan to fight the U.S. intervention in 2001. However, he was freed in 2008 after he renounced violence. He was the father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah , who assumed the leadership of TNSM during Sufi's imprisonment. He was described by BBC as a "follower" of Saudi Arabia 's Wahhabi Islamic school of thought, and by the Jamestown Foundation as one of the "active leaders" of Jamaat-e-Islami in the 1980s. BBC News - Pakistan agrees Sharia law deal "Pakistan's militant Islamic groups" .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Pakistani cleric and leader of the Islamist TNSM (1933–2019) Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan (1933 – 11 July 2019) was a Pakistani cleric and militant, the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a militant group (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in 2002) vying for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan. It operated mainly in the Dir region , Swat , and Malakand districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa . Sufi Muhammad was jailed for sending thousands of volunteers to Afghanistan to fight the U.S. intervention in 2001. However, he was freed in 2008 after he renounced violence. He was the father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah , who assumed the leadership of TNSM during Sufi's imprisonment. He was described by BBC as a "follower" of Saudi Arabia 's Wahhabi Islamic school of thought, and by the Jamestown Foundation as one of the "active leaders" of Jamaat-e-Islami in the 1980s. BBC News - Pakistan agrees Sharia law deal "Pakistan's militant Islamic groups" .
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Today
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founder of tehreek-e-nafaz-e-shariat-e-mohammadi
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pakistani cleric and militant
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