LASHKAR-E-OMAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lashkar-e-Omar mean? 

• LASHKAR-E-OMAR (noun)
  The noun LASHKAR-E-OMAR has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda

  Familiarity information: LASHKAR-E-OMAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASHKAR-E-OMAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Al Qanoon; Lashkar-e-Omar

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:

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)