Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Designation Status (as of October 12, 2026)
| US State Dept FTO | Listed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) since December 26, 2001 |
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| US Treasury OFAC SDN (SDGT) | Listed LASHKAR E-TAYYIBA |
| UK Proscribed | Listed Lashkar e Tayyaba (LT) since March 2001 |
| EU Terrorist Lists | Listed Lashkar-e-Toiba |
| Canada Listed Entities | Listed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) since June 18, 2003 |
| Australia Listed | Listed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba since November 5, 2003 |
Profile written 2014 The profile below is the original Jihad Intel text and has not been updated. Designation status above is current.
Designated as terrorist by: Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States
Base of operations: Pakistan
Background: National Counterterrorism Center
Background: Council on Foreign Relations
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT; "Army of the Righteous"), a terrorist group suspected of being closely tied to Pakistani intelligence, focuses on expelling India from Kashmir. Formed as the military wing of Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, a fundamentalist organization involved in the anti-Soviet jihad, its broader ambition is to bring Islamic rule to the entire Indian subcontinent. LeT is responsible for numerous attacks on Indian soil, but since Pakistan formally banned the group in 2002, it has been reluctant to claim credit for its terrorist handiwork. This includes the 2006 bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai and the coordinated, four-day assault on that city in 2008. Underlining LeT's international reach, U.S. citizen David Headley (born Daood Gilani) pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 attack. In 2003, federal authorities broke up a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Virginia. LeT's political front is Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
