Haq Nawaz Jhangvi (Punjabi/Urdu: حق نواز جھنگوی, romanized: Ḥaq Nawāz Jhangvī; 1952 – 23 February 1990) was a Pakistani cleric who founded the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a Sunni Deobandi group known for its anti-Shia thoughts, on 6 September 1986.

[1] Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was born in 1952 in Chela, a village in the Jhang District of West Punjab, into a small land-holding Punjabi family of the Jat-Sipra clan to Wali Muhammad, having memorized the Qur'an by heart in two years before, studying Qur'anic recitation and Arabic grammar and then pursuing higher Islamic studies at the Darul Ulum Kabirwala, where he spent five years, and Khair ul Madariss Multan, where he spent seven years, mainly focusing on hadith, becoming an imam (prayer leader) at a Toba Tek Singh mosque and later a khatib at a Jhang mosque, in 1973.

[2] Jhangvi joined the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam during the 1970s, and before he began focusing his preaching against Shias, he was active in the Khatm-i Nabuwwat movement against Ahmadis.

[5] Masood Azhar, a radical Islamic scholar and one of the most wanted men by India for his activities, has been described as "an old devotee of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.

"[6] His son Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi is also a politician and want to continue his father's legacy, but describes himself as less sectarian when it comes to the Shias.