PESHAWAR: The Tehrik Nefaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi will be deciding its future course of action at a Shura meeting to be held soon.

This was resolved on Saturday at a meeting of the proscribed organisation’s central executive committee (Shura) which was presided over by TNSM chief Sufi Mohammad.

Sufi Mohammad had surfaced in Peshawar on July 6 for the first time since his disappearance in April from his Amandara headquarters but had avoided meeting or talking to media personnel.

He has been residing in a rented house in the Sethi Town area of the city where he held meetings with some displaced people and discussed various matters.

A TNSM source privy to the meeting told Dawn that prominent among those who met Sufi Mohammad were Mohammad Iqbal Khan, Bakht Wahid, Akram Khan, Malik Abdul Jamil, Maulana Samiullah and Fida Adnan.

He said matters pertaining to the prevailing situation in Malakand division, displacement and return of people and whereabouts of members of the TNSM were discussed at the meeting.

Senior TNSM members, he said, decided to convene a meeting of the Shura preferably in Peshawar to decide future line of action about efforts for enforcement of Sharia in the division.

The TNSM chief, however, made it clear that he had not been arrested by the government nor taken by security agencies into protective custody.

He said the meeting was brief and the discussion was confined to uncontroversial affairs, saying those present even avoided offering fateha for TNSM members who had died in the past two months.

‘They also avoided talking about the death of TNSM central naib amir Maulana Mohammad Alam and spokesman Amir Izzat Khan who were killed when a military convoy taking them to Peshawar was attacked in the Skhakot area about two months ago.