7. 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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