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Mangal Bagh


Mangal Bagh (1973–2016), also known as Mangal Bagh Afridi, was the leader (and according to some reports, founder) of Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant organization operating in Khyber Agency, Pakistan. Several Pakistani newspapers had referred to him by title as Haji Amir Mangal Bagh. He was from the Bara tehsil, and belonged to the Sepah Afridi tribe.

Bagh was said to be a successor of Mufti Munir Shakir, a Deobandi cleric who established a pirate radio ministry in Khyber Agency in 2004 after being ejected from Kurram Agency by tribal elders for inciting sectarian hostility. When Shakir was ejected from Khyber Agency, he turned over his radio station to Bagh, a local driver, and Bagh then formed the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam. Mangal Bagh was killed in a drone attack on 22 July 2016 in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.


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