Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) was a Deobandi militant organization 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. LeJ 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, LeJ 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 killed along with Ghulam Rasool Shah in another police 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, Iran, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, the European Union, NATO, and the United Nations.