Ansar ul-Islam was founded in 2004 by Pir Saif-ur Rehman, an Afghan Sufi preacher, influenced by the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam.
[1] They are a militant Islamist group in North-west Pakistan and are rivals of Lashkar-e-Islam.
[2][3] The group was being led by Qazi Mehboob-ul-Haq in 2013[update].
[1] The group was banned by the Pakistani government in June 2008,[4] and the ban was renewed in Pakistan's 2014 National Internal Security Policy.
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