Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
| Harakat ul-Jihad al-Islami | |
|---|---|
Jihadist flag used by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami | |
| Founders | Fazlur Rehman Khalil Qari Saifullah Akhtar † |
| Leader | Ilyas Kashmiri † Shah Sahib |
| Dates of operation | 1985–present |
| Active regions | |
| Ideology | Islamism Islamic fundamentalism Deobandi |
| Notable attacks | Beheading of Bhausaheb Maruti Talekar |
| Status | Active |
| Size | >400+ (claimed) |
| Allies | Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed Haqqani Network Taliban Pakistani Taliban Asian Tigers Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Indian Mujahideen |
| Battles and wars | Soviet–Afghan War Kashmir insurgency Internal conflict in Bangladesh Kargil War War in North-West Pakistan Bangladesh drug war War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation |
| Designated as a terrorist group by | |
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي, romanised: Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah, lit. 'Islamic Jihad Movement"', HuJI) is a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist organisation affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
It has been most active in the South Asian countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. The organisation has been designated as a terrorist group by India, Israel, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, and Bangladesh when its Bangladesh branch was banned in 2005.
The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan on 4 June 2011. He was linked to the 13 February 2010 bombing of a German bakery in Pune. A statement was released soon after the attack that claimed to be from Kashmiri; it threatened other cities and major sporting events in India. A local Taliban commander, Shah Sahib, was named as Kashmiri's successor.