Did Wikipedia remove the word "terror" from the Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan article?

Yes. "terror" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 14. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan article stop using the word "terror"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2010. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 14 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.

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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 14.

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The opening as it read in 2010

Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan ( Sipah-e-Mohammed Pakistan , Sipah-e-Muhammad ; English : Soldiers of Muhammad ) is a Shi'a militant formed in the early 1990s (the exact date of formation is unclear) as a response to sectarian violence against Pakistani Shia orchestrated by militant Sunni movements such as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).¹ On August 14, 2001, it was banned by President Pervez Musharraf as a "terrorist" organisation.²

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Today

“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 14. Read the current article and compare.

Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
	2010	2015	2020	Oct '23	2025
terror	1	1	1	0	0
militant	2	2	2	0	1

What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

shi'a militant formed in the early 1990s

Now

shia organisation and political party in pakistan which turned into an assassination/militant organization it h

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