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Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami

Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami

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.