Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)
| Al-Badr | |
|---|---|
| اَلْبَدْرْ | |
Al-Badr flag | |
| leaders | Arfeen Bhai Jasniel Rihal Bahkt Zameen Khan |
| Commander | Hamzah Burhan (Chief Operational Commander in Kashmir Valley) |
| Dates of operation | 1998–2022 |
| Group | United Liberation Front |
| Headquarters | Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Active regions | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Ideology | Separatism Islamism Islamic fundamentalism jihadism |
| Status | Defunct |
| Part of | United Jihad Council |
| 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 |
| Opponents | India United States |
| Battles and wars | Soviet-Afghan war Afghan Civil War (1989-1992) Kashmir conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Kargil War |
| Designated as a terrorist group by | India United States |
Al-Badr (Arabic: اَلْبَدْرْ, romanized: al-badr, lit. 'the full moon') was an Islamist militant group formerly active in the insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir. The group was formed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in June 1998. It is believed the group was encouraged by the ISI to operate independently from their previous umbrella group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM). 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. India and the United States have declared it a terrorist organisation and banned it.