Government links Sufi’s release to new Shariah law in Swat

This is not good. The Pakistani government is ceding more authority to Sharia courts in Malakand and releasing a radical cleric in order to "speed up the justice delivery system in the aftermath of the unrest created by cleric Maulana Fazlullah".
FROM DAILYTIMES.COM:

Government links Sufi’s release to new Shariah law in Swat
* Talks with TNSM continue
* Nizam-e-Adl to repeal jurisdiction of courts in Malakand

By Akhtar Amin

PESHAWAR: The government has said it would release Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Chief Sufi Muhammad after the implementation of its proposed Shar’i Nizam-e-Adl Regulation of 2008 in Malakand division. The proposed regulation is aimed at ending the unrest created by rebel cleric Fazlullah.

Talks between government and the leaders of the banned outfit have accelerated in the last two weeks, officials and TNSM leaders said. TNSM acting chief Muhammad Alam said TNSM leaders wanted their ailing leader released, while the government wanted to implement its proposed Shar’i Nizam-e-Adl Regulation.

The proposed new law will repeal the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and high courts in Malakand (including Swat district) to “speed up the justice delivery system in the aftermath of the unrest created by cleric Maulana Fazlullah”.

said. A government official, seeking anonymity, told Daily Times that the government would soon announce the promulgation of the proposed regulation to “deal with the Swat crises politically”. The government would announce several important decisions regarding Swat, he said, including the release of the “TNSM will definitely accept the reforms under which Islamic laws are being imposed,” AlamTNSM chief. He said that a committee formed by the government had recommended that “the Supreme Court and high courts Extension of Jurisdiction to Tribal Areas Act, 1973 (Act XVII of 1973) be repealed and the Federal Shariah Court have an exclusive jurisdiction there.”