PESHAWAR, March 8: Caretaker Chief Minister Shamsul Mulk said on Saturday that the existing Shariah regulation had been improved into a set of Islamic laws which would be enforced in the Malakand region after approval by the federal government.

Talking to a 20-member delegation of Malakand Division at his office here, he said the government had also been mulling over the release of the ailing Maulana Sufi Muhammad, the chief of the defunct Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi, who has been in detention since late 2001 after his return from Afghanistan along with a group of his followers.Whatever the procedure would be, Shariah would be the supreme law of the entire Malakand region, he hoped.