Sipah-e-Sahaba
The Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS), also known as the Millat-e-Islamiyya (MI), is a Sunni Islamist organisation in Pakistan. Founded by Pakistani cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in 1989 after breaking away from Sunni Deobandi party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), it was based in Jhang, Punjab, but had offices in all of Pakistan's provinces and territories. It operated as a federal and provincial political party until it was banned and outlawed as a terrorist organization by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in 2002 Though it has been banned by the Pakistani government on numerous occasions, the Sipah-e-Sahaba has continued to operate under a different name throughout the country; it has significant underground support in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The organization was also banned by the United Kingdom, where there is a significant Pakistani diaspora population, in 2001.
| Sipah-e-Sahaba | |
|---|---|
| سپاہِ صحابہ | |
| Founders | Haq Nawaz Jhangvi # Isar ul Haq Qasmi X Zia ur Rehman Farooqi # Azam Tariq X |
| Political leader | Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi |
| President | Awrangzib Faruqi |
| Split from | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) |
| Split to | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi |
| Motives | Islamic Understanding of Companions Respect. |
| Active regions | Pakistan |
| Ideology | |
| Status | Active |
| Organization(s) | Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party |
| Colors | Black, White, Red, green |
| Part of a series on the |
| Deobandi movement |
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On 26 June 2018, before that year’s election, the Pakistani government lifted a 2012 ban on the Sipah-e-Sahaba and removed the terrorist designation for certain Sipah-e-Sahaba officials.
The organization's current political front is the Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party, under which they contested the 2018 general election and the 2020 Gilgit–Baltistan Assembly election.