lashkar
Speech parts
1. lashkar - Noun
2. Lashkar - Proper noun
Meaning
A city in Madhya Pradesh, India.
The Islamic militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (Urdu: لشکر طیبه (“Army of the Pure”)), based in Pakistan. Also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, or Lashkar-i-Toiba.
lashkar (plural lashkars)
Alternative form of lascar
Examples
Kandahar has an international airport and extensive road links with Lashkar Gah and Herat to the west, Ghazni and Kabul to the northeast, Tarinkot to the north, and Quetta in neighboring Balochistan to the south.
According to sources, Babbu Shah had been tasked by the ISI to hand over satellite telephone to a Lashkar commander.
After getting assimilated as a militant into the ranks of the Lashkar in the month of August 2009, he was given the code name of Fida Islam.
Lashkar Gah is home to Qalai Bost, the vaulted gateway to the ruins of a fort and castle dating from the Ghaznavid era.
Outlawed groups like Lashkar and the Pakistani Taliban run many extortion and kidnapping rackets, yet this was one of the rare instances in which someone went to jail for paying off their captors.
Moreover, another 400 or so from Lashkar, Hizb and Al-Badr cadres are waiting on the “launch pads” along the LoC for an opportunity to cross over.