Background
Haq Nawaz was born in 1952 in Chela, a village in the Jhang District of Punjab, Pakistan.
Haq Nawaz was born in 1952 in Chela, a village in the Jhang District of Punjab, Pakistan.
He graduated from the Jamia Khair al-Madaris in Multan in 1971.
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Jhangvi began attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran, accusing it of exporting its revolution. Locally, he targeted the Shah Jewna family and the district administration. He emerged as a credible alternative to the local feudal families.
Jhangvi founded Anjuman-i Sipah-i Sahabah in Jhang on 6 September 1985.
Former Sipah-e-Sahaba members Riaz Basra and Akram Lahori formed their own organization in 1996, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which was named after Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.