Liwa Zainebiyoun لواء زينبیون | |
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Also known as | Hezbollah Pakistan[1][2] |
Commander | Saqib Haider Karbalai (also known as Haj Haider from 2014 to 2017 unknown after the Haj Haider since 2017) †[3] |
Dates of operation | late 2014 – present[4] |
Allegiance | |
Active regions | |
Ideology | |
Slogan | إِن يَنصُرْكُمُ ٱللَّهُ فَلَا غَالِبَ لَكُمْ [Quran 3:160] "If Allah helps you, none can defeat you."[1][18][19] |
Status | Active (Banned)[20] |
Size | ~Several hundreds (est. 2014)[16] c. 800+ (est. 2019)[16] |
Part of | Axis of Resistance[19][21] |
Allies | State allies Non-State allies |
Opponents | State opponents Non-State opponents |
Battles and wars | |
Designated as a terrorist group by |
The Followers of Zainab Brigade (Arabic: لِوَاء الزَّيْنَبِيُون, romanized: Liwā’ az-Zaynabīyūn, Persian: لواء زينبیون or لشکر زينبیون, Liwa Zeinabiyoun or Lashkare Zeinabiyoun, Urdu: لواء زینبیون), also known as the Zainebiyoun Brigade or Zainebiyoun Division, is a Pakistani Shia Khomeinist militant group actively engaged in the Syrian Civil War.[32][5] It draws recruits mainly from Shia Pakistanis living in Iran,[5][33] with some also Shia Muslim communities living in various regions of Pakistan.[4][34]
It was formed and trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and operates under their command.[5] Initially tasked with defending the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque,[6][7] it has since entered frontlines across Syria.[4] Its dead are buried primarily in Iran.[5][7] Approximately 158 of their fighters have died in Syria as of March 2019, excluding those killed in Israeli airstrikes.[15] According to 2019 estimates, the total number of Pakistani fighters in the brigade barely exceeded 800.[16]
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