Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami

Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (, Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah, meaning "Islamic Struggle Movement", HuJI) is an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist/militant organization most active in South Asian countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. It was banned in Bangladesh in 2005. <!-- , and was labeled a terrorist organization by the United States in the late 1990s.Waliur Rahman. BBC News, October 17, 2005 ---REMOVED DUE To THE FACT THAT List of terrorist organizations DOES NOT SAY THE US LABELS IT AS A TERRORIST ORG --> The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri, was reportedly killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike in South Waziristan on June 4 2011.

History

HuJI or HJI was formed in 1984 by Fazalur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Akhtar, as the first Pakistan-based jihadist, during the Soviet-Afghan War.Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam by Zahid Hussain, Columbia University Press, 2007, page 71. Khalil later broke away to form his own group Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA), which...
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