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Sipah-e-Sahaba
Sunni Islamist organisation in Pakistan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS),[lower-alpha 1] also known as the Millat-e-Islamiyya (MI),[lower-alpha 2] is a Sunni Islamist banned Deobandi organisation in Pakistan.[1] Founded by Pakistani cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in 1989 after breaking away from Sunni Deobandi party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), it was based in Jhang, Punjab, but had offices in all of Pakistan's provinces and territories.[2][3] It operated as a federal and provincial political party until it was banned and outlawed as a terrorist organization by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in 2002. Even though it has been banned by the Pakistani government on numerous occasions, the Sipah-e-Sahaba has continued to operate under a different name throughout the country;[4][5] it has significant underground support in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The organization was also banned by the United Kingdom, where there is a significant Pakistani diaspora population, in 2001.[6]
Sipah-e-Sahaba | |
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سپاہِ صحابہ | |
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Founders | Haq Nawaz Jhangvi X Isar ul Haq Qasmi X Zia ur Rehman Farooqi X Azam Tariq X |
Political leader | Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi Ali Sher Haideri X |
President | Awrangzib Faruqi |
Split from | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) |
Split to | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi |
Active regions | Pakistan |
Ideology | |
Status | Active (Banned) |
Organization(s) | Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party |
Colors | Black, White, Red, green |
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On 26 June 2018, before that year's election, the Pakistani government lifted a 2012 ban on the Sipah-e-Sahaba and removed the terrorist designation for certain Sipah-e-Sahaba officials.[7][8][9]
The organization's current political front is the Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party, under which they contested the 2018 general election and the 2020 Gilgit–Baltistan Assembly election.[10]
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