Al-Badr | |
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اَلْبَدْرْ | |
leaders | Arfeen Bhai Jasniel Rihal Bahkt Zameen Khan |
Commander | Hamzah Burhan (Chief Operational Commander in Kashmir valley) |
Dates of operation | 1998-present |
Group(s) | United Liberation Front (Active in Kashmir) |
Headquarters | Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Active regions | Kashmir |
Ideology | Separatism Islamism Islamic fundamentalism Jihadism |
Part of | United Jihad Council and Operation Tupac |
Allies | Hizbul Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir Al-Qaeda Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind Islami Jamiat Taliba[1] |
Opponents | India United States |
Battles and wars | Soviet-Afghan war Afghan Civil War (1989-1992) Kashmir conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir |
Al-Badr (Arabic: اَلْبَدْرْ, romanized: al-badr, lit. 'the full moon') is an Islamist militant group operating in the Kashmir region.[2][3][4][5][6] The group was allegedly formed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in June 1998.[2][3][4][5] It is believed the group was encouraged by the ISI to operate independently from their previous umbrella group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM).[2][3][4][5] Prior to the group's separation from HM, they participated in the fighting in Afghanistan in 1990 as part of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-l-Islami (HIG) alongside other anti-Soviet Afghan mujihadeen.[4][5][6] India and the United States have declared it a terrorist organisation and banned it.[7][6] Pakistan has long been a difficult and disruptive neighbor of Afghanistan, increasing Afghanistan's instability by providing intelligence, weapons and security to the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. But now Pakistan is facing strong backlash both domestically and internationally against its policy of militant sponsorship.[8]
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