The Nizam-i-Adl Regulation 2009 ( NAR) ( Justice System) for Malakand Division of the North West Frontier Province ( NWFP), which includes the state of Swat, is a hugely controversial system of so-called Islamic laws of justice that is based on a highly dubious “peace accord†between the NWFP government of the Awami National Party (ANP) and a small religious outfit ( Tehreek-i-Nifaz Shariat Mohammad ( TNSM) led by an aging warrior (Sufi Mohammad).
There is bitter controversy over what is (...)