HARKAT-UL-JIHAD-E-ISLAMI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami mean? 

• HARKAT-UL-JIHAD-E-ISLAMI (noun)
  The noun HARKAT-UL-JIHAD-E-ISLAMI has 1 sense:

1. an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan

  Familiarity information: HARKAT-UL-JIHAD-E-ISLAMI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARKAT-UL-JIHAD-E-ISLAMI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami; Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami; HUJI

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Cashmere; Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir (an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India)