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We will not move from here until the government gives us assurance that LeJ will be punished.
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According to the intelligence source, the security forces last year caught an LeJ terrorist, who is still in custody.
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LeJ was implicated in an attack on army headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009.
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Government intelligence agencies have pointed to several LeJ militant training camps in Afghanistan.
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In August 2001, Pakistan's military leader General Pervez Musharraf banned a number of militant organisations, with LeJ top of the list.
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Within a decade the conflict led to fissures within the SSP and in 1996 LeJ broke away under the leadership of Riaz Basra.
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Both the Taliban and the LeJ belong to the same orthodox, puritanical Deobandi tradition of Islam associated with the Islamic revivalist movement in the region.
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Calling themselves "Jhangvi" loyalists, the Lej - or Army of Jhangvi - began allying itself with the Taliban movement which was just taking over in Afghanistan.
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Such fears were proved right when investigators found links between LeJ relating to three 2007 incidents in Pakistan which were all blamed jointly on al-Qaeda and the LeJ.
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In fact, however, a former high-ranking Pakistani intelligence official has given The Economist a much more plausible explanation for the Lahore attack: that it was the handiwork of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
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The Shia community that has been targeted in Pakistan for a long time by various religious orthodox groups is now becoming one of the most attacked minority by militant groups like LeJ.
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These include Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), seen in Pakistan as the political face of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a militant group which has been blamed for killing hundreds of Hazaras in Quetta and other Shia Muslims in other parts of the country.
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