Jundallah
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India, Iran to combat terror, talk pipeline, trade...the sources said. A horrific suicide attack in southeast Iran in October that targeted the country's Revolutionary Guards was blamed on Pakistan-based Jundallah, a Sunni extremist outfit which claimed responsibility. It was the first time... In this article: Iran, Tehran, New Delhi, Taliban, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan, S.M. Krishna, India, Afghanistan, and Suicide |
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BBC News | November 03, 2009
Sunni militant 'executed by Iran'
...22 people, many government employees, after closing the Zabol-Zahedan road. Jundullah has previously been accused by Iran of terrorist activities in the province. Thirteen members were executed in July, having been accused of various...
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New Kerala | October 28, 2009
Iran asks Pakistan to prevent terrorists from crossing over
...with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad. The visit came after a bloody attack in southeastern Iran carried out by the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group. Tehran urges Islamabad to tighten security in their common...
In this article: Pakistan, Iran, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamabad, Asif Ali Zardari, Dubai, and Tehran
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CNN | November 12, 2009
Pakistani working in Iranian consulate shot, killed
...of senior Revolutionary Guard officers. Iran blamed the attack -- which took place near its border with Pakistan -- on Jundallah, a rebel group, and accused Pakistan of harboring the group's leader. Pakistan denied it. Only days after the...
In this article: Suicide, Peshawar, Pakistan, Iran, Press TV, and Car bomb
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Iran, Pakistan to cooperate on security matters
...terrorist group which Iran says is based in Pakistan. "Iran and Pakistan can begin a new golden era of strategic cooperation by rooting out the Jundullah terrorist group," Najjar said. Najjar had travelled to Pakistan to discuss the two...
In this article: Iran, Pakistan, Jundullah, Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Inter-Services Intelligence, Mehr News, Rehman Malik, Yousuf Raza Gilani, and Tehran
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Iran mourns suicide bomb victims
...killed 42 people. It targeted the Revolutionary Guard, killing 15 of its members. Iran has blamed Jundullah, a Sunni militant group. It has also accused the United States, Britain and Pakistan of some role in the attack.
In this article: Suicide, Iran, Zahedan, United States, and Ali Larijani
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | October 18, 2009
Twenty killed in attack on Iran guard's elite officers
...to MPs broadcast on television. Iran has previously accused a shadowy Sunni group, Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, of staging regular attacks in the province, which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sistan-Baluchestan is home to a...
In this article: Iran, Suicide, God, World Cup, and Ali Larijani
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Iran intensifies pressure on Pak to hand over Jundallah chief
Iran intensifies pressure on Pak to hand over Jundallah chief Islamabad, Oct. 24 : Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has asked Pakistan to immediately hand over Abdolmalek Rigi, the chief of the militant Sunni Muslim group...
In this article: Abdolmalek Rigi, Pakistan, Iran, Suicide, The Dawn, and Yousuf Raza Gilani
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L.A. Times - Babylon & Beyond | November 12, 2009
IRAN, PAKISTAN: Death of consular official in Peshawar raises stakes
...Iran last month. Fifteen members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, including six senior officials, were killed in the attack, for which the Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundullah (God's Soldiers) has claimed responsibility. Iranian authorities...
In this article: Iran, Pakistan, Peshawar, Abdolmalek Rigi, Taliban, Suicide, God, and Islamic Republic News Agency
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India, Iran to join hands to stop terror inflow from Pakistan
...near the Pakistan border. The attack, for which Iran accused Pakistan of shielding operatives of Jundallah, has brought it closer to India which has been a victim of cross-border terrorism for decades. The two sides will also discuss...
In this article: Manouchehr Mottaki, Pakistan, India, Iran, Tehran, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Taliban, and Washington
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Jundallah (Arabic: جندالله) is an insurgent Sunni Islamic organization based in Balochistan that claims to be fighting for the rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran. It was founded and is currently under the command of Abdolmalek Rigi.
It is believed to have 1,000 fighters and claims to have killed 400 Iranian soldiers. and many more civilians. It is a part of the Baloch insurgency in Pakistan and in Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan Province. The group started under the name of Jundallah and later renamed itself as People's Resistance Movement of Iran. The group has been identified as a terrorist organization by Iran and Pakistan and has been behind numerous acts of terror, kidnapping and smuggling narcotics and many believe it is linked to Al-Qaeda. It is also believed to receive support from the US government. The group has also been abducting foreign tourists for ransom. On June 2, 2009, Abdolmalek Rigi - the head of Jundullah - admitted to receiving assistance from the notorious terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization
- Local Name:
- جندالله
- Headquarters:
- Pakistani Balochistan
- Founder:
- Baluch
- Head:
- Abdulmalek Rigi
- Ideology:
- Baluchi civil rights, Sunni Islam, Religious Conservatism
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