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Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)

Militant group operating in Jammu and Kashmir, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Al-Badr was an Islamist militant group formerly active in the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir in India. The group was formed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in June 1998.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Al-Badr, Jammu and Kashmir providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.