However, the term is very common in Urdu, spoken throughout Pakistan, and it is used throughout the Indian subcontinent for any Muslim clergy, Sunni or Shi ' a.

In mid-February 1989, following a violent riot against the book in Pakistan, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran and a Shi ' a Muslim scholar, issued a fatwa calling on all good Muslims to kill Rushdie and his publishers, or to point him out to those who can kill him if they cannot themselves.

In some Shi ' a regions of Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Bahrain, the Commemoration of Husayn ibn Ali has become a national holiday and most ethnic and religious communities participate in it.

The Shia Masjid ( literally meaning ' Shia Mosque ') is one of the largest Shia mosques in the mainly Shi ' ite populated area of Islampura in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.

Category: Shi ' a Islam in Pakistan

Category: Shi ' a Islam in Pakistan

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

In view of implacable demands by the political leadership of both Hindu and Islamic communities in British India for a separate Hindu and a separate Muslim homeland, Mountbatten conceded the notion of two nations consisting of a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan ( which incorporated East Pakistan, now Bangladesh ).

Mountbatten tried to persuade Jinnah of a united India, citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal, but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.

In 1947, Muslim majority districts of Bengal favored the Partition of India after approving the June 3rd Plan presented by the Viceroy of India Lord Earl Mounbatten, and merged with the new province of East Bengal of the Dominion of Pakistan.

From 1947 until 1954, the East Bengal was an independent administrative unit which was governed by the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin.

During this time, the 1954 elections were held which saw the complete defeat of Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin by the nexus of Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party allying with the Awami League.

In 1954, the Communist Party had brutally defeated the Pakistan Muslim League and had major influence in poor mass of the East Pakistan.

Many notable Muslim Bengali figures were among the Founding fathers of present date, State of Pakistan.

The communist parties played an influential role in staging the massive protests for the Bengali Language Movement which led the destruction of Pakistan Muslim League | PML in East Pakistan, 1950s.

All over the country, the political parties had favored the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of Muslim League.

The United Front, Communist Party of Pakistan and the Awami League returned to power, inflicting sever defeat to Muslim League.

In East Pakistan, the political impasse culminated in 1958 in a violent scuffle in the East-Pakistan parliament between the members of the Pakistan Muslim League and the East-Pakistan police, in which the deputy speaker was fatally injured and two ministers badly wounded.

Some Muslim religious organizations cite this work in support of the Islamic view of Jesus ; in particular, the Islamic apologists Rashid Rida in Egypt and Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi in Pakistan gave it qualified acceptance.

Muslim rule in the subcontinent began in 8th century CE when the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in modern day Pakistan, setting the stage for several successive invasions from Central Asia between the 10th and 15th centuries CE, leading to the formation of Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.

In 712 CE an Arab Muslim general called Muhammad bin Qasim conquered most of the Indus region in modern day Pakistan, for the Umayyad empire, to be made the " As-Sindh " province with its capital at Al-Mansurah, north of modern Hyderabad in Sindh, Pakistan.

In July 2009, Brookings Institution released a report stating that in the United States-led drone attacks in Pakistan, ten civilians died for every militant killed.

Pakistan even allowed NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan to launch attacks on militant groups in Pakistan.

The same report included statements that although the Sikh militant groups were poorly equipped and staffed, intelligence reports and interrogations indicated that Babbar Khalsa was sending its recruits to the same terrorist training camps in Pakistan used by Al Qaeda.

* Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan ( Students ' Movement of Pakistan ), the main Taliban militant umbrella group in Pakistan

During the October 2009, Pakistan military operation against terrorists in South Waziristan, his German passport was found in a captured militant town.

Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed are militant groups seeking accession of Kashmir to Pakistan.

Lashkar-e-Toiba, along with Jaish-e-Mohammed, another militant group active in Kashmir are on the United States ’ foreign terrorist organizations list, and are also designated as terrorist groups by the United Kingdom, India, Australia and Pakistan.

The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the terrorists killed / caught were citizens of Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof.

Lashkar-e-Taiba ( ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure ) – also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar Taiba or LeT – is one of the largest and most active militant Islamist organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.

On February 14, the CIA drone killed 27 taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in a missile strike in south Waziristan, a militant stronghold near the Afghan border where al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri were believed to be hiding .< ref > Pakistan: Suspected U. S. Missile Strike Kills 27, Saturday, February 14, 2009 < http :// www. foxnews. com / story / 0, 2933, 492944, 00. html ></ ref >

focused exclusively on terrorism, Islamic insurgencies, militant Islam, and the affairs of South Asia ― Afghanistan and Pakistan " ( ix-x ).

Guidelines for use in defeating bin Laden and militant Islam: don't overblow the war ( 239 ); stop glorifying bereavement ( 239-40 ); accept that we are hated for our policies and acts ( 240-41 ); be bloody-minded and kill in large numbers ( 241-42 ); fight without principle (" engaging in whatever martial behavior is needed ") ( 242 ); " stop knee-jerk yellow ribboning " ( 242-43 ); depend on ourselves, not others ( specifically, Pakistan ) ( 243-44 ); rely on real expertise ( 244-45 ); deal with bin Laden as a warrior, not a terrorist ( 246-47 ); attain energy self-sufficiency ( 247-48 ); break the military-industrial institutional nexus, perhaps by " banning many post-retirement jobs in exchange for a full-salary annuity after thirty years " ( 248-49 ); accept that we are at war with Islam ( 249-50 ); " learn to watch others die with equanimity " ( Ralph Peters ) ( 250-52 ).

On 30 May 2012, Pakistan Army raided Umar Gul's house in Peshawar and arrested his brother on the charge of hiding a wanted militant.

The group is based in Muzaffarabad, Rawalpindi, and several other towns in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but members conduct insurgent and militant activities primarily in Kashmir.

Later, of course, Major Ishaq became a symbol of militant left-wing politics in Pakistan.

In September 2011, 38 Saudi citizens and three others suspected of being involved in al-Qaeda appeared in the Specialized Criminal Court on charges including " training in militant camps in Pakistan, fighting in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, financing terrorism, transporting weapons, forging documents, inciting militants to fight in Iraq and suspected ".

* Jaish-e-Mohammed, militant Islamist group based in Pakistan

Khadr also allegedly read the instruction manual for a GPS unit to determine its operation for militant friends in Pakistan who wanted to measure the distance between a local graveyard and a house he believed belonged to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

* Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, an Islamic militant group based in Pakistan

On January 12, 2002, Tehrik-e-Jafria was one of four militant organizations banned by the government of Pakistan.