In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “sunni islamic fundamentalist terrorist/militant organization most active in south asian countries of pakistan”. Today it says “pakistani islamist extremist”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( Arabic : حركة الجهاد الإسلامي , romanized : Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah , lit. ' Islamic Jihad Movement" ' , HuJI ) is a Pakistani Islamist extremist , fundamentalist and terrorist organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban . It has been the most active in the South Asian countries of Pakistan , Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. The militant organisation has been designated as a terrorist group by India , Israel , New Zealand , United Kingdom , United States and Bangladesh when its Bangladesh branch was banned in 2005. The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri , was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan on 4 June 2011. He was linked to the 13 February 2010 bombing of a German bakery in Pune . A statement was released soon after the attack which claimed to be from Kashmiri; it threatened other cities and major sporting events in India. A local Taliban commander named Shah Sahib was named as Kashmiri's successor. Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism . Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam . The first Pakistani jihadist group emerged in 1980 ... By 2002, Pakistan had become home to 24 militant groups ... among them were LeT, JeM, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) and Harkat-al-Jihad-al-Islami (HJI). All these paramilitary groups, originally from the same source, had similar motivations and goals ... HuM and HJI were both strongly linked with the Taliban.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( , Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah , meaning "Islamic Struggle Movement", HuJI ) is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist terrorist/militant organization most active in South Asian countries of Pakistan , Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. It was banned in Bangladesh in 2005 . The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri , is believed to have been killed in a U.S.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( , Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah , meaning "Islamic Jihad Movement", HuJI ) is an Islamic fundamentalist organization most active in South Asian countries of Pakistan , Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. It was banned in Bangladesh in 2005. The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri , was killed in a US Predator drone strike in South Waziristan on 4 June 2011.He was linked to the 13 February 2010 bombing of a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune .A statement was released soon after the attack which claimed to be from Kashmiri; it threatened other cities and major sporting events in India.A local Taliban commander named Shah Sahib was named as Kashmiri's successor.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( , Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah , meaning "Islamic Jihad Movement", HuJI ) is an Islamic fundamentalist organisation most active in South Asian countries of Pakistan , Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. It was banned in Bangladesh in 2005. The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri , was killed in a US drone strike using a Predator drone in South Waziristan on 4 June 2011. He was linked to the 13 February 2010 bombing of a German bakery in Pune . A statement was released soon after the attack which claimed to be from Kashmiri; it threatened other cities and major sporting events in India. A local Taliban commander named Shah Sahib was named as Kashmiri's successor.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist organisation Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( , HuJI ) is a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist organisation affiliated with Al-Qaeda and Taliban .Which aims to spread Radical Islamist ideology to liberate the rest of Islamic lands from the clutches of the enemies of Islam .It has been the most active in the South Asian countries of Pakistan , Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s.The militant organisation has been designated as a terrorist group by India, Israel, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States and its Bangladesh branch was banned in Bangladesh in 2005. The operational commander of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri , was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan on 4 June 2011. He was linked to the 13 February 2010 bombing of a German bakery in Pune . A statement was released soon after the attack which claimed to be from Kashmiri; it threatened other cities and major sporting events in India. A local Taliban commander named Shah Sahib was named as Kashmiri's successor. Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism .Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam .The first Pakistani jihadist group emerged in 1980 ...By 2002, Pakistan had become home to 24 militant groups ... among them were LeT, JeM, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) and Harkat-al-Jihad-al-Islami (HJI).All these paramilitary groups, originally from the same source, had similar motivations and goals ...HuM and HJI were both strongly linked with the Taliban.
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Today
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sunni islamic fundamentalist terrorist/militant organization most active in south asian countries of pakistan
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pakistani islamist extremist
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