Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) is a banned Sunni Muslim sectarian organization and a former registered political party in Pakistan, primarily established to deter Shia Muslim influence. Formerly known as Anjuman-e-Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Army of the Friends of the Prophet, the organization was founded in the early 1980s by the Sunni cleric Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Connected to terrorist violence, primarily against Shia Muslims, the SSP was declared a terrorist organization and banned by President Pervez Musharraf in 2002. An SSP leader... read more