Who they are
313 Brigade is a terrorist
organization which has links with Al Qaeda and operates
in Pakistan. The members of the organization also
include groups like
Lashkar e Jhangvi,
Harkat ul Jihad Islami. The group is believed to be
involved in assassination attempts on General Musharraf
and Yusuf Raza Gillani. It is also involved in attacks
on military buildings and Pakistani state assets.
History
313 Brigade was founded by Ilyas
Kashmiri after he developed differences with Harkat ul
Jihad Islami chief
Qari Saifullah Akhtar.Ilyas
Kashmiri trained the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war
in Afghanistan.
The organization is linked to Al Qaeda and has been
involved in an assassination attempt on General
Musharraf and also with attacks on military headquarters
in Rawalpindi and Karachi naval base. Ilyas Kashmiri was
killed in a drone strike in 2011 in Waziristan.
The
group is now headed by Shah Sahib.
No information regarding Shah Sahib is available.
Organization’s Message
Information regarding the
organization’s message is not available
Target Audience
Information regarding target
audience is not available
Tools
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Splinter Groups
No
information is available
Annexure
Harkat ul Jihad
Islami
Harkat ul Jihad Islami was formed
by the Jamaat ul Ulema Islami and Tablighi Jamaat in the
1980s to fight against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
Qari Saifullah Akhtar is the founder of Harkat ul Jihad
Islami.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda is an international
terrorist network founded by Osama Bin Laden in 1988. Al
Qaeda helped in recruiting, financing and training
thousands of fighters from different parts of the world
to be part of an Afghan resistance to defeat the Soviet
Union. Al Qaeda’s goal is to establish Islamic Caliphate
throughout the world by working with Islamic extremist
groups to overthrow regimes they consider to be non
Islamic. Al Qaeda’s activities include bombing,
assassination, hijacking, kidnapping and suicide
attacks. Al Qaeda is responsible for the attacks on the
US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania in 1998 and also the hijacking attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11,
2001.
Lashkar e Jhangvi
Lashkar e Jhangvi was formed in
1996 by a group of extremists of Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan
Akram Lahori and Riaz Basra. LEJ is a Sunni militant
organization which aims to transform Pakistan into a
Sunni state mainly through violence.
Qari Saifullah Akhtar
Qari Saifullah Akhtar is a
militant leader and the founder of Harkat ul Jihad
Islami.Qari
Saifullah was arrested in Lahore in 2008 for his alleged
involvement in the attempted assassination of Benazir
Bhutto in Karachi in 2007. He was later released because
of lack of evidence. Qari Saifullah was again arrested
for suspicions of being involved in the Marriot bombing
in September 2008 but again was released due to lack of
evidence.