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Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a Pakistani Islamism, Islamist militant organization driven by a Salafi jihadism, Salafi jihadist ideology. The organisation's primary stated objective is to merge the whole of Kashmir with Pakistan. It was founded in 1985–1986 by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal Shehbaz, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Abdullah Azzam and several other Islamist Afghan mujahideen, mujahideen with funding from Osama bin Laden during the Soviet–Afghan War. It has been List of designated terrorist groups, designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations and numerous other countries and been responsible for terrorist attacks on civilians in India, such as the 2000 Red Fort attack, 2005 Delhi bombings, 2006 Mumbai train bombings and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, 26/11 Mumbai attacks. It has been supported by Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and is often viewed as a Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, proxy militant organization used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Hamza (Lashkar-e-Taiba)
Amir Hamza (born 10 May 1959) is a founding leader of the Islamist, Salafi jihadism, Salaji jihadist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba based in Pakistan.He is regarded as its second most important leader, after Hafiz Saeed.Arif Jamal, "Analyzing the Role of the Top LeT Ideologue: A Profile of Amir Hamza" in ''Militant Leadership Monitor'', Volume III, Issue 6 (June 2012), p. 6 Hamza was designated as a terrorist by the United States Treasury. Described as "a fiery speaker and a prolific writer," he is also considered to be "the top LeT ideologue." Hamza is believed to sit on its Central Committee. He is said to have negotiated for the release of other leaders, and to have led LeT's campaigns for charitable donations, and to have been the founding editor of LeT's official publication ''Majallah al-Daawa''. In 2002 Hamza published ''Qafila Da'wat aur Shahadat'' (Caravan of Proselytizing and Martydom). In 2018, Hamza formed the ''Jaish-e-Manqafa'' as a fund-raising front for the LeT, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muridke
Muridke (Punjabi language, Punjabi / ), is a city and headquarters of Muridke Tehsil of Sheikhupura District in Punjab Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan. It is the List of most populous cities in Pakistan, 37th largest city of Pakistan by population. Muridke is a commercial area situated near the city of Lahore, at an elevation of 205 m (675 ft). Geography It situated on the Grand Trunk Road. The city occupies a strategic position, with an interurban highway linking cities such as Lahore, Gujranwala and Sheikhupura. It is located at an altitude of 215 meters above sea level, with the land around being largely flat.[ Murīdke] at [ Geonames.org (cc-by)]. The area is largely agricultural and is serviced by nearby List of canals in Pakistan, canals. Temperature The average temperature is 23 °C. The hottest month is May, at 33 °C , and the coldest is January, at 11 °C. The average rainfall is 955 millimetres (37 in) per year. The wettest month is September, at 289 mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (born 5 June 1950) is a Pakistani militant and religious preacher convicted of terrorism. He co-founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organization that is List of designated terrorist groups, designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, and Russia. He is listed on India's NIA Most Wanted. In April 2012, the United States placed a Bounty (reward), bounty of US$10 million on Saeed for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 civilians. While India officially supported the American move, there were protests against it in Pakistan. After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he was designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the Security Council. He is also listed on the United States Department of the Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Resistance Front
The Resistance Front (TRF) is an Islamist militant organisation actively engaged in the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, and designated as a terrorist organization by India. The group is responsible for attacks on and killings of civilians, including those from religious minority communities such as Kashmiri Hindus, government employees, labourers and business owners, local politicians, and tourists, as well as for several attacks on Indian armed and police forces. The organisation is believed to be an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba,Manjari Chatterjee MillerThe Latest Attack in Kashmir Escalates India-Pakistan Tensions Council on Foreign Relations, 25 April 2025. a Pakistan-based UN-designated terrorist group. Formed using cadres of militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen in the aftermath of the 2019 abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, TRF uses non-religious nomenclature and symbolism to project a secular image, but has carried out targeted killi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi (, born 30 December 1960) is a Pakistani Islamist militant and co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba. One of the prime perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he is featured on India's NIA Most Wanted list. In January 2021, he was arrested by Pakistani authorities and sentenced to three concurrent five-year sentences in jail for terror financing in an unrelated case. A graduate of ''Jamia Mohammadia'' in Gujranwala, an Ahl-e-Hadith school, he has been considered by Amir Hamza, a co-founder of the LeT, as "the architect of Salafi jihad in Pakistan." He has orchestrated terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq, and Southeast Asia. He is referred to as Chachu, or Uncle, by trainees. After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he was sanctioned by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council. He is also listed on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's SDN List as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. His addresses therein are lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insurgency In Jammu And Kashmir
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir, a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.(a) (subscription required); (b) C. E Bosworth, University of Manchester Quote: "Jammu and Kashmir: Territory in northwestern India, subject to a dispute between India and Pakistan. It has borders with Pakistan and China." Jammu and Kashmir, long a breeding ground of separatist ambitions, Quote: "The Himalayan territory of Kashmir has long been the central source of friction between India and Pakistan and a hotbed of separatist aspirations." has experienced the insurgency since 1989. Quote: "Kashmir is claimed by India and Pakistan in full and ruled in part by both. An insurgency on the Indian-administered side has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Rehman Makki
)--> , image = , caption = , blank1 = Religion , data1 = Islam , blank2 = Denomination , data2 = Sunni , blank3 = Movement , data3 = Ahl-e-Hadith , blank4 = Nationality , data4 = Pakistani , birth_date = 1948 or 10 December 2024 , birth_place = Bahawalpur, West Punjab, Pakistan , death_date = 27 December 2024 , death_place = Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan , resting_place = Muridke, Punjab, Pakistan , party = Jamaat-ud-Dawah , years_active = , successor = , spouse(s) = , children = Owaid Rehman Makki , allegiance = Lashkar-e-Taiba , module = , rank = Second-in-command of Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Naib Ameer of Lashkar-e-Taiba , relations = Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (cousin and brother-in-law) , f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milli Muslim League
The Milli Muslim League is an Islamism, Islamist political party launched by the Jamat-ud-Dawa and its leader Hafiz Saeed. The professed aim of the party is to make Pakistan "a real Islamic state, Islamic and welfare state". The Election Commission of Pakistan does not recognise the party. The United States Department of State regards it as a front for the militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. It has also stated that its president Saifullah Khalid Kasuri has ties with the militant organization. History Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) members announced on 7 August 2017 the creation of the political party. MML President, Saifullah Khalid Kasuri, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), described the aim of the party saying, "We have decided to make a new political party, so that Pakistan is to made a real Islamic state, Islamic and welfare state." Tabish Qayyum, also under SDGT sanctions, acting as the party spokesman, stated they had filed registration papers for a new party with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Jihad Network
The Virginia jihad network was a group network of Islamist jihadist young men centered in Northern Virginia that were accused of conspiring to train and participate in violence overseas against US forces in Afghanistan and Indian forces in Kashmir. The men, Muhammed Aatique, Hammad Abdur-Raheem, Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Hamdi, Seifullah Chapman, Khwaja Hasan, Masoud Khan, Yong Kwon, Randall Todd Royer and Donald Surratt, were found guilty of various terrorism-related offences. Convictions Ali al-Timimi was found guilty of exhorting his followers to join the Taliban and fight US troops. Ali Asad Chandia was a teacher at a school in Maryland and was accused of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a U.S.-designated Pakistani terrorist organization.Terrorism suspect released on bond Diam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hizbul Mujahideen
Hizbul Mujahideen, also spelled Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (, ), is a Pakistan-based Islamist separatist militant organisation that has been engaged in the Kashmir insurgency since 1989. It aims to separate Kashmir from India and merge it with Pakistan,* * * * * * and is thus one of the most important players in the region as it evolved the narrative of the Kashmir conflict by steering the struggle away from nationalism and towards jihadism. Founded in September 1989 as an umbrella group of Islamist militants, Hizbul Mujahideen quickly came under the control of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir;* * * * * it is considered to be the military wing of the organisation. It is headquartered in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir, and also has liaison offices in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan's political and military capital cities, respectively. The organisation has claimed responsibility for multiple armed attacks in Kashmir. It has been designated as a terro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaat Al-Dawah Ila Al-Quran Wal-Sunnah
Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah (), abbreviated as JDQS, also known as The Salafi Group, was a militant Islamist organisation operating in eastern Afghanistan. Background Founded around 1986 during the Soviet–Afghan War by Jamil al-Rahman as a splinter from the larger Hezbi Islami faction, Jamaat al Dawa al Quran was a Salafi organisation that hosted many Arab volunteers and received funding from sympathetic Saudi and Kuwaiti businessmen. The group was able to establish the Islamic Emirate of Kunar, an Islamist mini-state in Kunar Province in 1991, but it quickly dissolved after attacks by Hezbi Islami and al-Rahman's assassination in 1991, however JDQ continued to operate. Following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, one faction of JDQ registered as a political party and took part in the 2005 Afghan parliamentary elections. Alleged arbitrary arrests and cultural insensitivity by coalition forces, along with loss of influence in the local Kunar administrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Badr
Al-Badr () was an Islamist Militant group operating in the Kashmir region. The group was allegedly formed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in June 1998. It is believed the group was encouraged by the ISI to operate independently from their previous umbrella group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM). Prior to the group's separation from HM, they participated in the fighting in Afghanistan in 1990 as part of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-l-Islami (HIG) alongside other anti-Soviet Afghan mujihadeen. India and the United States have declared it a terrorist organisation and banned it. Pakistan has long been a difficult and disruptive neighbor of Afghanistan, increasing Afghanistan's instability by providing intelligence, weapons and security to the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. But now Pakistan is facing strong backlash both domestically and internationally against its policy of militant sponsorship. Foundation and separation The group was originally led by Arfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
