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Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is a Pakistani-Kashmiri guerilla group. It is a Jihadi group and was established in 1985 initially opposing the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. The founders of the group had splintered from Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami.
In 1989, at the end of Soviet-Afghani conflict, the group entered Kashmiri politics by use of Mujahideen under the leadership of Sajjad Afghani Shaheed. In 1993 the group merged with Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami to form Harkat-ul-Ansar. Immediately following the merger India arrested three senior members: Nasrullah Mansur Langrayal, chief of the former Harkat-ul Mujahideen in November 1993; Maulana Masood Azhar, General Secretary in February 1994 and Sajjad Afghani Shaheed in the same month in Srinagar.
As a response the group carried out several abductions in an attempt to free their leaders, all of these failed. In 1997 the group renamed itself to the original Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, in a response to the United States defining Harkat-ul-Ansar as terrorist. In 1999 Sajjad was killed during a jailbreak leading to the hijacking, by the group of Indian Airlines Flight IC 814 which caused the release of Maulana Masood Azhar, Umar Saeed Shaikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar. The group has since not committed any major incidents.
External links
Pro-HUM website (http://www.harkatulmujahideen.org/)
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