People listen to their religious spiritual leader Sufi Muhammad in Mingora capital of Swat on Sunday, April 19, 2009. A hard-line cleric who mediated a deal that demanded the government to take meaningful steps to enforce the new system over the next month, including setting up proper appeal courts in four days. -AP Photo/B.K.Bangash
MINGORA While addressing a large rally here on Sunday, Chief of the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat, Maulana Sufi Mohammed said that the movement for the implementation of Sharia began in 1994.

`The fifteen year struggle of the TNSM for the implementation of Sharia in Malakand is now bearing results,` the Chief of the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat said.

He said the democratic system is an un-Islamic one and the judicial system of Pakistan should be according to the Sharia.

`Now any appeal against the Qazi courts` decisions can be made only through the Darul Qaza,` he added. `There is no room for democracy in Islam.`

In line with these statements, Sufi has demanded the abolition of all judges in Malakand, giving April 23 as a deadline for the establishment of Darul Qaza.

Sufi wants Qazis appointed in all the districts within one month and also said that the government should start giving decisions in criminal and other cases according to the Sharia.

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