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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