6. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan.
This group is mainly made up of active Islamist groups along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the main objectives of the groups is to overthrow the government of Pakistan, fight the NATO forces in Afghanistan, and set up sharia law as the only law in Afghanistan. The current leader of this terrorist organization is called Mullah Fazlullah, a devoted anti-Islamabad, anti-Western, and proponent of harsh tactics. The strong ties that the group has with Al-Qaeda makes them to openly threaten toattack the US and Europe over Osama Bin Laden’s death. This group claimed responsibility for the car-bomb attack that failed to go off in Times Square, it has threatened to attack the UK because of its participation in the War on Terror in Afghanistan, it has endorsed numerous suicide bombings, it has bombed the Pakistani UN offices, it has attacked army and naval stations in Pakistan, among other despicable acts.
5. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) is a terrorist group whose name means Army of the Righteous. This group operates in areas in and around Pakistan and India, and it has a reputation of being one of the largest and most skilled militant groups in the area. The LT started off as a military wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad in the early 1900s, which is an Islamic fundamentalist organization that used to oppose the then Soviet Union presence in Afghanistan. This group has conducted several attacks aimed at Indian troops as well as against innocent civilians. This includes an attack on India’s parliament in 2001 where 12 people lost their lives, an attack in Mumbai in 2008 where over 160 civilians lost their lives, the 2006 attacks on Mumbai commuter trains where over 180 people died, and many other acts of terror in India. One of their objectives is to establish an Islamic state in South-East Asia where they can exercise and uphold the sharia law.
5. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) is a terrorist group whose name means Army of the Righteous. This group operates in areas in and around Pakistan and India, and it has a reputation of being one of the largest and most skilled militant groups in the area. The LT started off as a military wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad in the early 1900s, which is an Islamic fundamentalist organization that used to oppose the then Soviet Union presence in Afghanistan. This group has conducted several attacks aimed at Indian troops as well as against innocent civilians. This includes an attack on India’s parliament in 2001 where 12 people lost their lives, an attack in Mumbai in 2008 where over 160 civilians lost their lives, the 2006 attacks on Mumbai commuter trains where over 180 people died, and many other acts of terror in India. One of their objectives is to establish an Islamic state in South-East Asia where they can exercise and uphold the sharia law.
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