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Lashkar E Islam
Lashkar may refer to: * Lascar, a type of sailor or militiaman employed by the British in South Asia (modern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) * ''Lashkar'' (film), a 1989 Bollywood film * ''Laskhar'' (novel), a 2008 military action thriller by Mukul Deva, published by HarperCollins. This is the first of a 4-book bestseller series. The motion picture rights of this novel were purchased by Planman Motion Pictures. * Lashkargah, a city in southern Afghanistan, capital of Helmand Province * Lashkar, Gwalior, an area of the city of Gwalior, formerly a separate town * Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant organization in Pakistan * Lashkar-e-Omar, a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist organization * Lashkar-e-Qahhar, an Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the 11 July 2006 Mumbai Train Bombings * Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani Islamist terrorist organization See also * Lascar (other) * Lashkari (other) * Laskar (other) * Askar (other), an Arabic w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lascar
A lascar was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, British Somaliland or other lands east of the Cape of Good Hope who was employed on European ships from the 16th century until the mid-20th century. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' states that the word has two possible derivations: :Either an erroneous European use of Urdu ''lashkar'' army, camp .. or a shortened form of its derivative ''lashkarī'' ..In Portuguese ''c''1600 ''laschar'' occurs in the same sense as ''lasquarim'' , i.e. Indian soldier; this use, from which the current applications are derived, is not recorded in English. The Portuguese adapted the term to "lascarins", meaning Asian militiamen or seamen, from any area east of the Cape of Good Hope, including Indian, Malay, Chinese, and Japanese crewmen. The English word " lascarins", now obsolete, referred to Sri Lankans who fought in the colonial army of the Portuguese until the 1930s. The British of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkar (film)
''Lashkar '' (Army) is a 1989 Bollywood action film directed by Jagdish Kadar, starring Dev Anand, Aditya Pancholi, Sonam, Madhavi, Hemant Birje, Sumeet Saigal, Jaaved Jaffrey, Kiran Kumar and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. The movie was a huge commission earner at the box office and is believed to be one of the last commercial successes of Dev Anand. This was the only film in the late 1980s that Dev Anand starred in that he did not produce or direct, but acted in the lead role and the film was a major box office success. Cast * Dev Anand * Aditya Pancholi * Sonam * Madhavi * Javed Jaffrey * Hemant Birje * Sumeet Saigal * Kiran Kumar Kiran Kumar (born Deepak Dhar; 20 October 1953) is an Indian screen and theatre actor. He has worked in numerous Hindi, Bhojpuri and Gujarati television and film productions. His latest work in drama is ''Charlie 2''. Personal life Kumar come ... Soundtrack References External links * 1980s Hindi-language films 1980s Indian films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukul Deva
Major Mukul Deva (Retd.) is an Indian polymath. Based in Singapore, he is a motivational keynote speaker, executive coach, business mentor and bestselling author. He writes spy-military thrillers on terrorism, action, crime as well as business and self-help books. Bibliography His works include: * "Time After Time", (Minerva Press, 2000), * "S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E. - The Art of Corporate Warfare", (Penguin, 2002 & Marshall Cavendish, 2012) * "M.O.D.E.L. The Return of the Employee", (Sage, 2006 / Cernunnos 2019) *"Women In Cinema", (HarperCollins, 2007) - co-authored with Wanti Singh * "Laskhar", (HarperCollins 2008), * "Salim Must Die", (HarperCollins, 2009) * "Blowback", (HarperCollins, 2010) * "Tanzeem", (HarperCollins, 2011) * "The Dust Will Never Settle", (HarperCollins, 2012) * "R.I.P.", (Westland, 2012) * "Weapon of Vengeance" (TOR, USA, 2012) * "F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success", (Marshall Cavendish & Westland, 2013) * "And Death Came Calling", (HarperCollins, 2014) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkargah
Lashkargāh (; ), historically called Bost or Boost (), is a city in southwestern Afghanistan and the capital of Helmand Province. It is located in Lashkargah District, where the Arghandab River merges into the Helmand River. The city has a population of 201,546 as of 2006. Lashkargah is linked by major roads with Kandahar to the east, Zaranj on the border with Iran to the west, and Farah and Herat to the north-west. It is mostly very arid and desolate. However, farming does exist around the Helmand and Arghandab rivers. Bost Airport is located on the east bank of the Helmand River, five miles north of the junction of the Helmand and Arghandab rivers. Because of the trading hubs, it is Afghanistan's second largest city in size, after Kabul and before Kandahar. After several weeks of fighting in the Battle of Lashkargah, the city was captured by the Taliban on 13 August 2021, becoming the fourteenth provincial capital to be seized by the Taliban as part of the wider 2021 Tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkar, Gwalior
Gwalior (Hindi: , ) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; It is known as the Music City of India having oldest musical gharana in existence. It is a major sports, cultural, industrial, and political centre in Madhya Pradesh. Gwalior is among the seven cities selected for new startup centres under India's growing innovation ecosystem. On World Cities Day (31 October 2023), UNESCO Director - General Audrey Azoulay announced Gwalior's inclusion among 55 new world creative cities in the UCCN from India. This tag elevates Gwalior's identity internationally, spotlighting it's artists, music traditions and vibrant culture. It lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of New Delhi, the capital city of India and from Bhopal, the state capital, Gwalior occupies a strategic location in the Gwalior Chambal region of India. The grand historic city and its fortress have been ruled by several Indian kingdoms. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) , Army of Jhangvi) was a Deobandi terrorist organisation driven by a Takfiri Anti-Shia ideology based in Afghanistan. The LeJ was an offshoot of anti-Shia party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). The LeJ was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah. The LeJ operated in Pakistan and Afghanistan until 2024. The LeJ had claimed responsibility for various mass casualty attacks against the Shia community in Pakistan, including multiple bombings that killed over 200 Hazara Shias in Quetta in 2013. It had also been linked to the Mominpura Graveyard attack in 1998, the abduction of Daniel Pearl in 2002, and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009. A predominantly Punjabi and Pashtun group, the LeJ had been labelled by Pakistani intelligence officials as one of the country's most dangerous terrorist organization. Basra, the first Emir of LeJ, was killed in a police encount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkar-e-Omar
Lashkar-e-Omar (The Army of Omar) is an Islamic fundamentalist militant organisation. The group, which was formed in January 2002, is a mixture of elements from three other groups: Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Jaish-e-Mohammed. It also includes members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Its reported mission is to attack Americans in Pakistan. The current leader is Qari Abdul Hai, also known as Qari Asadullah alias Talha. Several events have been linked to the group. It was reportedly behind a grenade attack on a church in Islamabad on 17 March 2002, which resulted in five deaths and 41 injuries. A couple of months later on 8 May a suicide bomber detonated outside a Sheraton hotel in Karachi. Again in Karachi 10 people were killed when the US consulate was attacked on 14 June. Finally on 28 October 2002, a church in Bahawalpur in Punjab, was attacked by six gunmen, killing 17 Christians and a police officer. Some of its members are also allegedly connected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkar-e-Qahhar
The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July. They took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capital. The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains plying on the Western Line Suburban Section of the Mumbai Division of Western Railway. The blasts killed 209 people and injured over 700 more. Pressure cookers were used in the bombing and other attacks to increase the afterburn in a thermobaric reaction, more powerful than conventional high explosives. The first blast reportedly took place at 18:24 IST (12:54 UTC), and the explosions continued until 18:35, during the after-work rush hour. All the bombs had been placed in the first-class "general" compartments of several trains running from Churchgate, the city-centre end of the western railway line, to the western suburbs of the city. They exploded at or in the near vicinity of the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Lascar (other)
Lascar may refer to: *Lascar, a sailor or militiaman from South Asia employed by the European nations from the 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century *Lascar (volcano), the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes * Lascăr, a Romanian surname and given name *''Pantoporia ''Pantoporia'' is a genus of Asian butterflies sometimes called the lascars. They are predominantly with striped patterns of orange and black. Species in the genus include: * ''Pantoporia antara'' (Moore, 1858) * ''Pantoporia assamica'' (Moore, ...'', a genus of butterfly * Upper and Lower Lascar Row, a street in Hong Kong See also * Laskar (other) * Lashkar (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkari (other)
Lashkari may refer to: People Lashkari is a Persian name; people with this name include: * Lashkari ibn Muhammad, Shaddadid ruler of Ganja (971–78) * Lashkari ibn Musa, Shaddadid ruler of Arran (1034–49) * Muhammad Shah III Lashkari, Bahmani sultan (1463–1482) Places * Lashkari, Dahanu, a village in Maharashtra, India Languages * The language Lashkari, known more commonly by its Chagatai derived given name Urdu Other * Lashkari (racehorse) (1981–96) See also * Lascari, town in Sicily, Italy * Lascar (other) Lascar may refer to: *Lascar, a sailor or militiaman from South Asia employed by the European nations from the 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century *Lascar (volcano), the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes * Lascăr, ... * Lashkar (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
