Jamaat-ud-Dawa (Lashkar-e-Tayyaba)

Abstract

The contemporary landscape of Islamist militancy in Pakistan is populated by an array of Islamist militant groups, sometimes called tanzeems. The members of one cluster of militant groups, the “sectarian tanzeems” such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba-ePakistan (SSP), have long-targeted Shia and Ahmediyas, and, in recent years, members of Pakistan’s varied Sufi sects (often referred to as Barelvis). A second cluster of groups are those that call themselves “Kashmiri tanzeems” because they claim to operate on behalf of Kashmiris and other Muslims living on Indian territory. These groups aim to “liberate” India’s Muslims from the supposed oppression of the Hindu-dominated Indian state.

Keywords: Islamist militancy, Pakistan, Kashmiri tanzeems