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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
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)
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