The Peshawar High Court granted bail on Wednesday to the sons of Sufi Mohammad, media reports said. Sufi Mohammad and his three sons were arrested on July 22 in Peshawar under a security law after they held meetings of their proscribed pro-Taliban group despite government warnings.
The PHC ordered the release of Sufi Mohammad's sons on bail Wednesday, observing that the prosecution failed to prove its case as to how the trio was a threat to public order, a private television channel said. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Information Minister in North West Frontier Province, earlier accused them of encouraging terrorism and sabotaging government moves to fight militancy.
Sufi Mohammad brokered the peace deal in February, but Taliban militants led by his son-in-law Maulana Fazlullah refused to disarm and exploited the truce to expand their control to nearby districts. Kifayatullah, Sufi Mohammad's eldest son, was killed in a clash with troops in his stronghold of Lower Dir early May.
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