Haq Nawaz Jhangvi

Haq Nawaz Jhangvi

Haq Nawaz Jhangvi (Urdu: حق نواز جهنگوی) (also also referred to by the title Maulana) was a controversial Pakistani cleric, who founded the militant organization Sipah-e-Sahaba in the 1980s. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1758534.stm Pakistan's militant Islamic groups] BBC News South Asia, 13 January, 2002.]

Jhangvi was killed in a retaliatory bomb attack by Shia militants on 23 February, 1990. [ [http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/terroristoutfits/Ssp.htm Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Terrorist Group of Pakistan] South Asian Terrorism Portal.] Former Sipah-e-Sahaba member Riaz Basra named his own neo-Wahabi organization, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, after the slain cleric. [ [http://kashmirherald.com/profiles/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.html Lashkar-e-Jhangvi] Kashmir Herald, Volume 2, No. 9 - February 2003.]

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External links

* [http://www.kr-hcy.com/shaheed.shtml Obituary for Haq Nawaz Jhangvi] by Haq Char Yaar. NOTE: strongly partisan website.


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