Ansar Al-Mujahideen is a banned militant group operating in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. The group is affiliated to

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban (), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (Urdu/ ps, , lit=Student Movement of Pakistan, TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani bo ...

. The group mostly carries out attacks against

Pakistan Armed Forces The Pakistan Armed Forces (; ) are the military forces of Pakistan. It is the world's sixth-largest military measured by active military personnel and consist of three formally uniformed services—the Army, Navy, and the Air Force, which are ...

and politicians, but has also threatened polio vaccination teams. Its members are largely

Uzbeks The Uzbeks ( uz, , , , ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, next to Kazakh and Karakalpak mino ...

and operate from

North Waziristan North Waziristan District ( ps, شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanist ...

Major attacks

*Oct 16, 2013:

Israr Ullah Khan Gandapur Sardar Israr Ullah Khan Gandapur (; 6 August 1975 – 16 October 2013) was a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2002 to 2008 and again from 2008 to 2013 and then again from 2013 till his death. In h ...

, Provincial Law Minister of KPK was killed in a

suicide bomb attack A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout histor ...

while greeting people meeting him, Ansar ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility. *Oct 13, 2013: The group claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a convoy in

Wana MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...

that killed two security officials. *Dec 18, 2013: An explosive-laden truck hit a major security post in

, killing five soldiers and injuring more than 20. The group claimed responsibility.

References

{{reflist Jihadist groups affiliated to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

Major attacks

See also

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