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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Urdu: لشکر جھنگوی, Army of Jhangvi) was a Deobandi terrorist organisation that was driven by a Takfiri anti-Shia ideology which operated in Pakistan, while being based in Southern Afghanistan. LeJ was an offshoot of anti-Shia party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). LeJ was founded by former SSP activists such as Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah. LeJ operated in Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan until 2024.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had claimed responsibility for various mass casualty attacks against the Shia community in Pakistan, including multiple bombings that killed over 200 Shia Hazara 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, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had been labelled by Pakistani intelligence officials as one of the country's most dangerous terrorist organizations in the country.
Riaz Basra, the first Emir of LeJ, was killed in a police encounter in 2002. He was succeeded by Malik Ishaq, who was later killed, with Ghulam Rasool Shah, in an encounter in Muzaffargarh in 2015. LeJ was banned by Pakistan in August 2001. LeJ remained active until 2024, and had been designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, Iran, NATO, the European Union, and the United Nations.
Basra, along with Akram Lahori and Malik Ishaq, separated from Sipah-e-Sahaba and formed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 1996. One source stated that "Almost the entire leadership" of the group, wad made up of "people who had fought in Afghanistan". The newly formed group took its name from Sunni cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi who led anti-Shia violence in the 1980s, and one of the founders of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's founders believed that the SSP had strayed from Jhangvi's ideals. Jhangvi was killed in an attack by Shia militants in 1990. Malik Ishaq, the operational chief of LeJ, was released after serving 14 years by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 14 July 2011, after the Court dropped 34 of the 44 charges against him, involving the killing of around 100 people, and granted him bail in the remaining 10 cases due to lack of evidence. In 2013, Ishaq was arrested at his home in Rahim Yar Khan of the Punjab province.
LJ initially directed most of its attacks against the Pakistani Shia Muslim community. It also claimed responsibility for the 1997 killing of four American oil workers in Karachi. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had attempted to assassinate Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999. Basra himself was killed in 2002 during a failed attack he was leading on a Shia settlement near Multan. Basra was killed due to the cross-fire between his group and the police which was assisted by armed local Shia residents.
Officials from Zabul province had claimed that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had a sanctuary in southern Afghanistan. Early on in 2016, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Yousuf Mansoor Khurasani had survived an insider attack in southern Afghanistan.
After the groups dissolution/desolation in 2024, its remnants had fled to Southern Afghanistan.[clarification needed]
In 2025 following the crackdown by the Afghan government against the anti-Pakistan elements inside the Afghan soil its remnants withdrew from Southern Afghanistan after several arrests of its former members as Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to not allow terror attacks from their territories against each other soil.
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Urdu: لشکر جھنگوی, Army of Jhangvi) was a Deobandi terrorist organisation that was driven by a Takfiri anti-Shia ideology which operated in Pakistan, while being based in Southern Afghanistan. LeJ was an offshoot of anti-Shia party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). LeJ was founded by former SSP activists such as Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah. LeJ operated in Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan until 2024.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had claimed responsibility for various mass casualty attacks against the Shia community in Pakistan, including multiple bombings that killed over 200 Shia Hazara 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, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had been labelled by Pakistani intelligence officials as one of the country's most dangerous terrorist organizations in the country.
Riaz Basra, the first Emir of LeJ, was killed in a police encounter in 2002. He was succeeded by Malik Ishaq, who was later killed, with Ghulam Rasool Shah, in an encounter in Muzaffargarh in 2015. LeJ was banned by Pakistan in August 2001. LeJ remained active until 2024, and had been designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, Iran, NATO, the European Union, and the United Nations.
Basra, along with Akram Lahori and Malik Ishaq, separated from Sipah-e-Sahaba and formed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 1996. One source stated that "Almost the entire leadership" of the group, wad made up of "people who had fought in Afghanistan". The newly formed group took its name from Sunni cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi who led anti-Shia violence in the 1980s, and one of the founders of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's founders believed that the SSP had strayed from Jhangvi's ideals. Jhangvi was killed in an attack by Shia militants in 1990. Malik Ishaq, the operational chief of LeJ, was released after serving 14 years by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 14 July 2011, after the Court dropped 34 of the 44 charges against him, involving the killing of around 100 people, and granted him bail in the remaining 10 cases due to lack of evidence. In 2013, Ishaq was arrested at his home in Rahim Yar Khan of the Punjab province.
LJ initially directed most of its attacks against the Pakistani Shia Muslim community. It also claimed responsibility for the 1997 killing of four American oil workers in Karachi. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had attempted to assassinate Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999. Basra himself was killed in 2002 during a failed attack he was leading on a Shia settlement near Multan. Basra was killed due to the cross-fire between his group and the police which was assisted by armed local Shia residents.
Officials from Zabul province had claimed that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had a sanctuary in southern Afghanistan. Early on in 2016, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Yousuf Mansoor Khurasani had survived an insider attack in southern Afghanistan.
After the groups dissolution/desolation in 2024, its remnants had fled to Southern Afghanistan.[clarification needed]
In 2025 following the crackdown by the Afghan government against the anti-Pakistan elements inside the Afghan soil its remnants withdrew from Southern Afghanistan after several arrests of its former members as Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to not allow terror attacks from their territories against each other soil.
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