Sipah-e-Sahaba

There was an imam here who was forced to step down because the other imams did not approve of his association with Sipah-e-Sahaba, which is a movement in Pakistan meaning Army of Companions.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

The group that the Imam had links with is called Sipah-e-Sahaba, a Pakistani group believed to be a formal member of Al Qaeda.

More on the Muslim Firearms Officer 2006

The group that the Imam had links with is called Sipah-e-Sahaba, a Pakistani group believed to be a formal member of Al Qaeda.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

There was an imam here who was forced to step down because the other imams did not approve of his association with Sipah-e-Sahaba, which is a movement in Pakistan meaning Army of Companions.

More on the Muslim Firearms Officer 2006

Other groups, such as Sipah-e-Sahaba, were tolerated because they had mainly targeted Muslims from Pakistan's minority Shiite community, which is politically powerless.

Pakistan Cracks Down on al Qaeda-Linked Groups Shahnawaz Khan 2010

The explicitly anti-Shiite Sipah-e-Sahaba Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions, born in southern Punjab in 1985, took up the cause of Sunni peasants in a region dominated by large Shiite landowners.

Pakistan's Low-Grade Civil War Sadanand Dhume 2011

On 5 October, Maulvi Ameen, a former member of the banned Deobandi militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba, was assassinated.

Karachi killings must stop Mustafa Qadri 2010

The explicitly anti-Shia Sipah-e-Sahaba Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions, born in southern Punjab in 1985, took up the cause of Sunni peasants in a region dominated by large Shia landowners.

The Plight of Pakistan's Shia Sadanand Dhume 2011

The 36-million-strong community is a bulwark against the violent Sunni fundamentalism of groups such as the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Punjab-based Sipah-e-Sahaba.

The Plight of Pakistan's Shia Sadanand Dhume 2011

He alleged that Sipah-e-Sahaba, a banned extremist Islamic group, was behind the assassination.

Gunmen Unleash Violence in Pakistan 2010