The LeT's agenda is outlined in a pamphlet titled "Why are we waging jihad."  It includes the restoration of Islamic rule over all parts of India and propagates a narrow Islamic fundamentalism based on the Wahabi sect.  The LeT challenges India's sovereignty over the State of Jammu and Kashmir.  It seeks to bring about a union of all Muslim majority regions in countries that surround Pakistan.  LeT is also a member of Usama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad against the US and Israel, as well as of the United Jihad Council.

Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) -- Founding Group and Faction
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) -- Founding Group and Faction

Lashkar-I-Omar is a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist group with links to a number of important terrorist organizations in the country. The group was assembled when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf cracked down on indigenous terrorist groups in 2001. Following the crack-down, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) entered into a loose coalition with two other radical groups, Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HuJI) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), to form Lashkar-e-Omar (LeO), sometimes called al-Qanoon. In addition to these groups, the coalition includes some individual "freelance" terrorists.  Sheikh Omar and Amjad Hussain Faruqui of the HuJI, both charged with participating in the abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl, are closely linked to the LeO. <P><br /><br />The name al-Qanoon was first used when the group claimed responsibility for the June 2002 attack on the US Consulate in Karachi, which killed 11 and injured 45.  In a letter sent to a Karachi newspaper claiming responsibility for the attack, the group warned that "America, its allies and its slave Pakistani rulers should be prepared for more attacks." The bomb blast is the beginning of Al-Qanoon's jihadi activities in Pakistan."  According to a senior Pakistani intelligence official quoted in the New York Times, intelligence officials almost unanimously agree that the attack was carried out by Lashkar-e-Omar, and that al-Qanoon is an alias for LeO.