Lashkar-e-Tayyiba Terrorist Organizations // Lashkar-e-Tayyiba



Lashkar-e-Tayyiba is an Islamist militant group focused on attacking Indian, and sometimes Western targets, in India. Its chief aim is to reunite India-administered Kashmir with Pakistan. The disputed region has been a point of contention between India and Pakistan since the partition of Britain's Indian territories in 1947.  LeT is the militant wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI), a fundamentalist Islamic group that is connected to Wahhabi sects in Pakistan. MDI was founded...

 

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