Country Reports on Terrorism 2012

In 2011, LeT was responsible for multiple attacks, most of them in Jammu and Kashmir. The
deadliest was a May 27 attack on a private residence in the city of Kupwara that killed two
civilians. In a notable 2011 counterterrorism success, police in Indian-administered Kashmir shot
and killed a senior LeT operative, Azhar Malik, after they surrounded a house where he was
hiding in the town of Sopore.
In June 2012, Indian authorities arrested LeT member Sayeed Zabiuddin Ansari, alias Abu
Jindal, one of the instigators of the November 2008 Mumbai attack. In October 2012, LeT
claimed responsibility for an attack against an Indian army convoy outside a hotel in Kashmir,
which killed one bellboy and injured two others.
Strength: The size of LeT is unknown, but it has several thousand members in Azad Kashmir
and Punjab in India; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab Provinces in Pakistan; and in the southern
Jammu, Kashmir, and Doda regions. Most LeT members are Pakistanis or Afghans and/or
veterans of the Afghan wars.
Location/Area of Operation: LeT has global connections and a strong operational network
throughout South Asia. LeT maintains a number of facilities, including training camps, schools,
and medical clinics in Pakistan.
Funding and External Aid: LeT collects donations in Pakistan and the Gulf as well as from
other donors in the Middle East and Europe, particularly the UK.
LASHKAR I JHANGVI
aka Army of Jhangvi; Lashkar e Jhangvi; Lashkar-i-Jhangvi
Description: Designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on January 30, 2003, Lashkar I
Jhangvi (LJ) is the militant offshoot of the Sunni Deobandi sectarian group Sipah-i-Sahaba
Pakistan. LJ focuses primarily on anti-Shia attacks and other attacks in Pakistan and
Afghanistan, and was banned by Pakistan in August 2001, as part of an effort to rein in sectarian
violence. Many of its members then sought refuge in Afghanistan with the Taliban, with whom
they had existing ties. After the collapse of the Taliban as the ruling government in Afghanistan,
LJ members became active in aiding other terrorists, providing safe houses, false identities, and
protection in Pakistani cities, including Karachi, Peshawar, and Rawalpindi. LJ works closely
with Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan.
Activities: LJ specializes in armed attacks and bombings and has admitted responsibility for
numerous killings of Shia religious and community leaders in Pakistan. In January 1999, the
group attempted to assassinate former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shabaz
Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province. Media reports linked LJ to attacks on Christian targets
in Pakistan, including a March 2002 grenade assault on the Protestant International Church in
Islamabad that killed two U.S. citizens.
LJ was active in 2011 and 2012. The most notable 2011 attack occurred in December, when an
LJ suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device in a crowd of Shia mourners in
Kabul, killing 48 civilians – including 12 children – and wounding 193. LJ attacks in 2012
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