Pakistan holds pro-Taliban cleric

**A radical cleric who brokered a failed peace deal in Pakistan’s Swat valley has been arrested, officials say.**Sufi Mohammed was arrested in Peshawar, in the restive north-west of Pakistan, government officials said.

Regional information minister Iftikhar Hussein said he had been arrested on unspecified charges but had been warned against holding meetings in Peshawar.

The cleric negotiated a peace deal in February, widely seen as allowing the Taliban to take control of the valley.

Militants imposed Sharia law in the district after the agreement.

However the deal later fell apart when Taliban fighters moved into neighbouring districts.

The government’s military operation to remove insurgents from the region has displaced some two million people in Pakistan’s north-west.

Sufi Mohammad is the founder of a banned militant group, Tehrik Nizam Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM).

In June, two of his aides - who were under arrest - were killed when militants attacked a convoy transporting prisoners to Peshawar, officials said.