Ansarul Sharia Pakistan

[1] The group claimed, through their Twitter page, that they recruited members from South Punjab, Balochistan, and Waziristan.

[1] The leaders of the group are claimed to have derived their ideology and tactical methodologies from Osama Bin Laden and his organization, Al-Qaeda.

[4] The group originally consisted of roughly ten to twelve young men who attended various universities in Karachi, Pakistan.

[5] Law enforcement has claimed that the group receives a list of targeted killing tasks from abroad.

[7] Abdul Karim Sarosh Siddiqui and muzammil ali junaidi is claimed to have been the masterminds behind the attacks on Khwaja Izhar.