Sectarian violence in Pakistan has increased significantly in recent years. Several militant groups are involved in sectarian attacks and targeted killings, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sahaba, and Tehrik-e-Jafria. The government has banned many of these groups but they continue operations. Recommendations to reduce sectarian violence include promoting inter-faith dialogue, madrassa reforms to de-emphasize sectarianism, and enforcing bans on violent groups.

1. Scheme of presentation
 Introduction
 Increase in sectarian violence
 Groups involved in sectarian violence
 Anti Indian militant groups inside Pakistan
 Recommendations for putting an end to sectarian
violence
 The list of banned military organization in
Pakistan

2. Sectarian violence is among the critical
threats to Pakistan’s internal security and
stability.
Besides sectarian-related attacks and
targeted killings by violent sectarian
groups, sectarian Discrimination is also
increasingly penetrating individuals’
attitudes and behaviours in Pakistan.

3. Sectarian: Groups involved in the violence ,
or motivated groups such as the Sunni
Organization, Sipah-e-Sahaba, LashkareJhangvi and the Shia Tehrik-e-Jafria that are
engaged in violence within Pakistan

5. Increase in Sectarian Violence
Despite the government’s repeated bans on sectarian
groups, they are becoming more active
and defiant across country, particularly in Karachi,
Quetta and South Punjab.

8. According to Pak Institute for Peace
Studies’ (PIPS) Pakistan Security Report
2012 the overall
Incidents of Sectarian Violence,
including sectarian-related terrorist
attacks and clashes,
increased significantly, by about 53
percent, in 2012

9. Many of the banned Sectarian Organizations
wear Political hats
and take part in electoral Politics, whether
with different names and independent
candidates or
through making alliances with mainstream
Political Parties
PIPS

10. Groups involved in Sectarian
Violence
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The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (Punjab)
Area of operations: Countrywide
Targets: Shea Muslims, non-Muslims, foreign
nationals, state security forces
Base of support: Sectarian groups in Punjab. It first
emerged in the Punjab in the 1990s.

11. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Area of operations: Traditionally, the Mehsud group of the TTP,
which operates from bases in the tribal territory of South
Waziristan;
operating mainly from Orakzai Agency. Other Taliban factions
are based in the Khyber Agency and, according to media reports,
in southern Punjab.
Targets: Pakistani military personnel and civilians - typically
suicide bombings in markets.
Support base: The Mehsud tribe and other tribes loyal to it
assisted by foreign militants.

12. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (North)
Area of operations: All tribal territories, but
especially Kurram and Orakzai where there is a Shea
population - a minority Muslim sect.
Targets: Pakistani civilians, especially Shies, and
military personnel. Attacks on Western nationals in
Pakistan.
Base of support: Mainly anti-Shea militant groups
from Punjab.

13. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
Area if operations: Countrywide with a
concentration in the Punjab
Targets: Non-Muslims and the Shea minority
Base of support: Other sectarian groups and hardline Muslim factions.

14. Tehrik-e-Jafaria, Pakistan
 It was formerly known as Tehrik-e Nefaz-e Fiqh-e Jafria
 It is shia organization against Sunnis
 Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan (TJP) was banned again on 5
November 2011
 whereas it was banned two times before by President
Pervez Musharraf's government. Increased attacks on
Shias since 2005 from the Pakistan Taliban, Sipah-eSahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jundullah and Jaish-eMohammed

15. Jaish-e-Mohammad
Area of operations: Mainly Indian-held Kashmir and
Afghanistan; some role in fighting in north.
Headquartered in the southern Punjab
Targets: Indian forces, Western nationals, non-Muslim
Pakistanis
Base of support: Backing from hard-line Muslim
factions involved in violence in northwest Pakistan and
across the border in Afghanistan.

16. Lashkar-e-Islam
Area of operations: Khyber Agency
Targets: Pakistani civilians
Base of support: The hard-line Deobandi Muslim
sect; locked in a battle against militant rivals for
control in Khyber.

17. Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-iMohammadi
Area of operations: Swat Valley, in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Province; attempts to assert influence in
Dir.
Targets: Pakistani civilians - especially government
figures, including teachers - and military personnel.
Social roots and base of support:
The group was set up in 1992. Its involvement in more
widespread militancy began after 2002, when key
leaders were imprisoned after participating in `jihad’
in Afghanistan. It has split into various factions since
then.

18.  Anti-Indian: Groups focused on the kashmir dispute
it is said that operate with the alleged support of the
Pakistani military and the intelligence agency inter
service intelligence (ISI), such as Lashkar-e-Taiba,
Jaish-e-Muhammad, and Harakat ul-Mujahadeen
 http://www.cfr.org/

19. Lashkar-e-Taiba
Formed in 1990
the Lashkar-e-Toiba (also known as Jama’at-udDa’awa) is based in Muridke near Lahore in Pakistan
and is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
 Its first presence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was
recorded in 1993 when 12 lashkar militants infiltrated
across the Line of Control (LoC) in tandem with the
Islami Inquilabi Mahaz, a terrorist outfit then active in
the Poonch district of J&K.

21. Jaish-e-Mohammad
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Area of operations: Mainly Indian-held Kashmir and
Afghanistan; some role in fighting in north. Headquartered
in the southern Punjab
Targets: Indian forces, Western nationals, non-Muslim
Pakistanis
Base of support: Backing from hard-line Muslim factions
involved in violence in northwest Pakistan and across the
border in Afghanistan.

22. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Alalami(HuMA)
 Formation
 The Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami (HuMA; Al-alami, meaning
International) is an offshoot of the proscribed Deobandi terrorist
group,
 (and was formed sometime in the year 2002 after parting ways
with the latter on a dispute over organizational affairs. According
to The Friday
 It is suspected to be involved in the failed attempts to assassinate
President Pervez Musharraf and the former Interior Minister
Moinuddin Haider.

24. Afghan Taliban
 Afghan Taliban: The original Talibab movement and
especially its Kandahari leadership centered around
Mullah Mohammad Omar, believed to be based
in Quetta
 Mullah Muhammad Umar is never seen on media ,,
and this is a question mark on the taliban leadership

25.  The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern
Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops
from Afghanistan.
 A predominantly Pashtun movement of it's time, the
Taliban came to prominence in Afghanistan in the
autumn of 1994.

26.  The Taliban's promise - in Pashtun areas straddling
Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and
security and enforce their own austere version of
Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.
 In both countries they introduced or supported
Islamic punishments - such as public executions of
convicted murderers and adulterers and amputations
of those found guilty of theft.
 Men were required to grow beards and women had to
wear the all-covering burka.

27.  Pakistan was also one of only three countries, along
with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), which recognised the Taliban when they were
in power in Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until 2001.
 Pakistan was also the last country to break diplomatic
ties with the Taliban.

28.  Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it is the
architect of the Taliban enterprise.
 But there is little doubt that many Afghans
who initially joined the movement were
educated in madrassas (religious schools) in
Pakistan.

29. Recommendations for putting an
end point to Sectarian Violence
 Interaction and dialogue among religious scholars and
madrassa students and teachers belonging to all
religious schools of thought
 There should be zero tolerance for violent sectarian
groups and their leaders
 Government should strive in consultation with
representatives of all madrassa boards

30.  The madrassa curriculum should emphasize religious
Education and not Sectarian Education.
 - Government should partner with representatives of
all Wafaqs, or Madrassa education boards,
 Opportunity to madrassas students to study
viewpoints of different religious schools of thoughts.

31. The list of banned military
organization in Pakistan
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Organisations
1. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (Leek)
2. Sepah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP)
3. Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM)
4. Lakhar-e-Taeba (LeT)
5. Sepah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
6. Tehreek-e-Jaafria Pakistan (TJP)
7. Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammad (TNSM)
8. Tehreek-e-Islami
9. AI Qaeda
10. Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan (Ex-SSP)
11. Khuddam-ul-Islam (Ex JeM)
12. Islami Tehreek Pakistan (Ex-TJP)
13. Jamiat-ul-Ansar
14. Jamiat-ul-Furqan
15. Hizbut Tehrir
16. Khair-un-Nas International Trust
17. Balochistan Liberation Armv (BLA)
Proscription Date
August 14, 2001
August 14, 2001
January 14, 2002
January 14, 2002
January 14, 2002
January 14, 2002
January 14, 2002
January 14, 2002
March 17, 2003
November 15, 2003
November 15, 2003
November 15, 2003
November 20, 2003
November 20, 2003
November 20, 2003
October 27, 2004
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18. Islamic Students Movement of Pakistan
19. Lashkar-e-Islam
20. Ansar-ul-Islam
21. Haji Namdar Group
22. Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
23. Balochistan Republican Army (BRA)
24. Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF)
25. Laskhar-e-Balochistan (LeB)
26. Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF)
27. Balochistan Muslla Defa Tanzeem (BMDT)
28. Shia Tulaba Action Committee, Gilgit
29. Markaz sabeel Organisation, Gilgit
30. Tanzeem Naujawana-e-Ahle Sunnat (TNA), Gilgit
31. Peoples Aman Committee (Lyari), Karachi
32. Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Ex-banned organisation (SSP)
33. AI Harmain Foundation
34. Rabita Trust
August 21, 2006
June 30, 2008
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September 8, 2010
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35. Anjuman-e- Imamia Gilgit Baltistan
36. Muslim Students Organisation(MSO) Gigit Baltistan
37. Balochistan Bunyad Parast Army
38. Tehreek Nafaz-e- Aman
39. Tahafuz Hadudullah
40. Balochisan Waja Liberation Army
41. Baloch Republican Party Azad
42. Balochistan United Army
43. Islam Mujahidin
44. Jaish-e- Islam
45. Balochistan National Liberation Army
Enlisted under UNSCR 1267
46. AI-Akhtar Trust
47. AI-Rashid Trust
48. Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)
Under watch list / observation
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34. Conclusion