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Lashkar-e-Taiba

Pakistani militant organization


Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Pakistani Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation. The organisation's primary stated objective is to merge the whole of Kashmir with Pakistan. It was founded in 1985–1986 by Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal Shehbaz, Abdullah Azzam and several other Islamist mujahideen with funding from Osama bin Laden during the Soviet–Afghan War. It has been designated a terrorist group by the United Nations and numerous countries.

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