Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)

For other uses, see Al-Badr (disambiguation).

Al-Badr
اَلْبَدْرْ
leadersArfeen Bhai
Jasniel Rihal
Bahkt Zameen Khan
CommanderHamzah Burhan (Chief Operational Commander in Kashmir valley)
Dates of operation1998-present
Group(s)United Liberation Front (Active in Kashmir)
HeadquartersMansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Active regionsKashmir
IdeologySeparatism
Islamism
Islamic fundamentalism
Jihadism
Part ofUnited Jihad Council and Operation Tupac
Allies Pakistan
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 warsSoviet-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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