Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi لشکر جھنگوی
Flag of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Leader(s)	Riaz Basra † Malik Ishaq † Akram Lahori Ghulam Rasool Shah † Asif Chotu †
Dates of operation	1996–present
Motives	Extermination of the Shia community in Pakistan
Active region(s)	Pakistan Afghanistan
Ideology	Sunni supremacism Deobandi fundamentalism Salafi jihadism
Notable attacks	2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team 2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings January 2013 Pakistan bombings October 2016 attack on Police College Quetta Pakistan
Status	Active. Designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; Urdu: لشکر جھنگوی‎) or "Army of Jhangvi", is a Sunni supremacist and jihadist militant organisation based in Pakistan with limited operations in Afghanistan. An offshoot of anti-Shia sectarian group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), the LeJ was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah.

The LeJ has claimed responsibility for various mass casualty attacks against the Shia community in Pakistan, including multiple bombings that killed over 200 Hazara Shias in Quetta in 2013. It has also been linked to the Mominpura Graveyard attack in 1998, the abduction of Daniel Pearl in 2002, and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009. A predominantly Punjabi group, the LeJ has been labelled by Pakistani intelligence officials as one of the country's most virulent terrorist organisations.