Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) is a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organisation designated as a terrorist entity by the United Nations, the United States, India, the United Kingdom, and several other countries.
- Founded in the mid-1980s as the armed wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad organisation; emerged as a prominent militant group in the early 1990s.
- Listed by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1267 (the Al-Qaida Sanctions List).
- Responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, and numerous other attacks in India.
- Operates through proxy groups like The Resistance Front (TRF) to maintain plausible deniability.
- The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has repeatedly cited Pakistan's insufficient action against LeT as a concern.
● Tracked since February 22, 2026 · last seen April 23, 2026 · updates as the daily brief publishes
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