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2017

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name the co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, who has been placed under house arrest along with four others by Pakistani authorities
A
Zabiuddin Ansari
B
Mohammad Nawaz
C
Aizaz Cheema
D
Hafiz Saeed
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is the Amir (chief) of Lashkar-e-Taiba. While Yahiya Mujahid serves as the spokesman of the outfit, Maulana Abdul Wahid is one of the senior leaders.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lashkar-e-Taiba, (Urdu: “Army of the Pure”) also spelled Lashkar-e-Tayyiba or Lashkar-e-Toiba, Islamist militant group, begun in Pakistan in the late 1980s as a militant wing of Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, an Islamist organization influenced by the Wahhābī sect of Sunni Islam.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a Pakistan-based group formed in 1990 that primarily fights Indian control over Jammu and Kashmir. The group subscribes to a strict fundamentalist interpretation of Islam and seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in South Asia.

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