SIPAH-E-SAHABA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sipah-e-Sahaba mean? 

• SIPAH-E-SAHABA (noun)
  The noun SIPAH-E-SAHABA has 1 sense:

1. a vicious sectarian organization in Pakistan that persecutes Shiite Muslims and collaborates with al-Qaeda to attack foreigners and to disrupt the government of Pakistan

  Familiarity information: SIPAH-E-SAHABA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIPAH-E-SAHABA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vicious sectarian organization in Pakistan that persecutes Shiite Muslims and collaborates with al-Qaeda to attack foreigners and to disrupt the government of Pakistan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Sipah-e-Sahaba"):

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (a Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda; the armed wing of Sipah-e-Sahaba)

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)