Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islamia ( Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي , literally, Islamic Resistance Movement ) (IDS) is a Sunni Islamist fundamentalist militarist organization, the most active in South Asian countries such as Pakistan , Bangladesh and India , since the beginning of 1990 s. It was banned in Bangladesh in 2005, and was labeled as a terrorist organization by the United States in the late 1990s.
It began its activity in 1984, with the announcement of jihad against shuravi . After the war ended, it partially fell apart. The bases were in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Known for its terrorist attacks in India.
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Literature
- Hussain, Zahid. Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam. - New York: Columbia University Press , 2007 .-- ISBN 978-0231142243 .