The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; Urdu: لشکر جھنگوی‎) or "Army of Jhangvi", is a Sunni supremacist[6] and jihadist militant organisation based in Afghanistan. An offshoot of anti-Shia political party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), the LeJ was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah.[7]