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Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (S.M.P) (Urdu: سپاہ محمد پاکستان; Arabic: سباه محمد الباكستانيه; English: Soldiers of Muhammad) was a Shia organisation and political party in Pakistan. It was formed in 1993 by Allama Mureed Abbas Yazdani. Its headquarters is in Thokar Niaz Beg, Lahore.
Groups that are banned As of 7 September 2021. [1]Lashkar-e-Jhangvi; Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan; Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan; Tehreek-e-Jafaria (Pakistan) Jaish-e-Muhammad
Sectarian violence in Pakistan refers to violence directed against people and places in Pakistan motivated by antagonism toward the target's religious sect. As many as 4,000 Shia (a Muslim minority group) are estimated to have been killed in sectarian attacks in Pakistan between 1987 and 2007, [23] and thousands more Shia have been killed by Salafi extremists from 2008 to 2014, according to ...
A police officer who saved a woman accused of blasphemy from a mob of 200 men in eastern Pakistan has described how she had to negotiate with the crowd to lead her to safety. (Murtaza Syed / AFP ...
Supporters of Imran Khan and riot police scuffle outside Khan’s house in Lahore on Tuesday (AFP via Getty Images) “Police have come to arrest and send me to jail,” he said in a video posted ...
Maulana Syed Ghulam Raza Naqvi is one of the founders of the Pakistani Shia vigilante movement Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), in the early 1990s (1994 in some sources), [1] formed to counter and respond to Deobandi Sunni Muslim attacks. Naqvi was educated in a Shia seminary in Najaf. [2]
The attackers were allegedly affiliated with Sipah-e-Sahaba, an anti-Shia organization in Pakistan. [16] Hussaini died of his wounds while being transported by ambulance to a local hospital. Hussaini’s death sparked a riot by around 500 supporters who threw stones at cars and buses in the eastern city of Lahore before riot police dispersed ...
Authorities in Pakistan on Wednesday arrested and charged a man with cyber terrorism for his alleged role in spreading misinformation that led to widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month.