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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Kashmir crisis: what is Lashkar-e-Taiba and is it supported by Pakistan?

A bombed building with a mountain in the background
Bilal Mosque, after it was hit by an Indian strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

As India launches missile strikes on what it says are camps associated with militant groups inside Pakistan in retaliation for last month’s massacre in Kashmir, attention has once again focused on India’s claimed relationship between Islamabad and armed groups involved in attacks in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, most prominently Lashkar-e-Taiba.

What is Lashkar-e-Taiba?

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