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The Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS), [a] also known as the Millat-e-Islamiyya (MI), [b] is a banned Sunni Islamist Deobandi organisation in Pakistan. [1] Founded by Pakistani cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in 1989 after breaking away from Sunni Deobandi party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) , it was based in Jhang, Punjab , but had offices in all of Pakistan's ...
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was born in 1952 in Chela, a village in the Jhang District of West Punjab, into a small land-holding Punjabi family of the Jat-Sipra clan to Wali Muhammad, having memorized the Qur'an by heart in two years before, studying Qur'anic recitation and Arabic grammar and then pursuing higher Islamic studies at the Darul Ulum Kabirwala, where he spent five years, and Khair ul ...
In the 1980s Tanzim-e-Ahlesunnat (TAS) had come to be known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, in the 1990s a new umbrella was set up under the name of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), whose members, though ostensibly a separate organization, were supported by SSP's lawyers and funding. [165] In 2003, SSP became Ahl-e Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ). [166]
It is widely assumed that the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Sunni Muslim extremist militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba, is behind the attacks on the Hazara community in the region. [7] There are differences of opinion regarding whether LeJ is a breakaway group of a banned former political party, Sipah-e-Sahaba , or simply its armed ...
It is expected that the al-Qaeda-affiliated Sunni Muslim extremist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), was behind the attacks on the Hazara minority in the region. [13] [14] There are differences of opinion regarding whether LeJ is a breakaway group of a banned former political party, Sipah-e-Sahaba, or is its armed wing. [8]
Three people associated with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were put on trial for the bombing. [39] (see: Nishtar Park bombing) 2007. 18 December: The shrine of Abdul Shakoor Malang Baba is demolished by explosives. [40] 2008. March 3: ten villagers killed in a rocket attack on the 400-year-old shrine of Abu Saeed Baba. Lashkar-e-Islam takes credit. [40] 2009
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In 1996, Basra broke away from Sipah-e-Sahaba to form his own anti-Shia organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The organization takes its name from the deceased founder of Sipah-e-Sahaba, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi , who was killed in a bomb attack by unknown assailants believed to be sponsored by a Shia group on 23 February 1990.