Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

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Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan is a Wahabi sectarian outfit that has been alleged to be involved in terrorist violence, primarily targeted against the minority Shia Muslims in Pakistan. The outfit has also operated as a political party having contested elections and an SSP leader was a minister in the Coalition Government in Punjab in 1993. The SSP is one of the five outfits that have been proscribed as a terrorist organization by President Pervez Musharraf on January 12, 2002. The outfit quickly changed their name to Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan after the proscription[1].

They were previously known as Anjuman Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASS); this dubious acronym made them change their name. Founded by controversial anti-Shia cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in the early 1980s inresponse to the imaginary threat of a Shia revolution facing Pakistan after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Sipah Sahaba represent a long history of extremism in Sunni and Wahabi Islam. Sipah-e-Sahaba in their preachings and actions are remarkably like Khariji. Sipah-e-Sahaba are funded heavily through the sheikdoms of Arabs, especially Saudi Arabia, and target sects of Islam like the Shiites or Brailvis. Many beheadings and other acts of violence have earned this designated terrorist group extreme notoriety. Sipah-e-Sahaba are widely believed to be a formal part of Al-Qaeda's global network. They have killed many people. Sipah-e-Sahaba is an anti-Shia organization. In Pakistan it is responsible for a number of targeted killings of Shia religious leaders and intellectuals. Its main financiers and mentors are Saudi Arabian wahabis. Wahabis consider themselves as puritan, whereas the other sects of Islam consider the Wahabis responsible for various schisms in Islam.

On October 10, 2005, Great Britain's Home Office banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and fourteen other militant groups from operating in the United Kingdom. Under Britains' Terrorism Act 2000, being a member of a Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan is punished by a 10-year prison term. The fourteen banned groups were:

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