It's been a day - and a night - of contrasts at Lashkar Gah.
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The capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, is now fully transitioned over to Afghan lead control.
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One carol service was held on Christmas Eve at the British army base of Lashkar Gar.
Pakistan banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 2001, but critics say its members have continued to operate freely.
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India accused Pakistan-based fighters from the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of carrying out the attacks.
Tahawwur Rana was convicted in 2011 of providing material support for the Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Saeed said the decision Wednesday by a U.N. committee to identify Lashkar leaders as terrorists was in haste.
However, U.S. counterterrorism officials say signs point to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and they haven't seen anything to rule it out.
Representatives from five nations, including Afghan generals and others, joined British troops in Lashkar Gah for Sunday's service.
At the British headquarters in Lashkar Gah, the senior chaplain Padre Dowell Conning conducted the main service of remembrance.
India has blamed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for the attacks, which began on 26 November and lasted three days.
He was serving in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province when he was injured by enemy action on Monday.
It happened while soldiers were engaged with insurgent forces near Lashkar Gah, as part of Operation Panther's Claw, the ministry said.
Members of a local militia or "lashkar" detained Umar and handed him over to security forces, a senior intelligence official said.
He had been sent with his unit to Pupalzay, along the Highway 601 in the Lashkar Gah area of Helmand province.
Cpl Pike had been sent with his unit to Pupalzay, along the Highway 601 in the Lashkar Gah area of Helmand province.
India has blamed the 2008 Mumbai attacks on Lashkar-e-Taiba, which denies involvement.
In 2009, Pakistan arrested and charged seven people, including suspected mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who is alleged to head the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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Reports say Pakistani police have also ordered the sealing of some offices used by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Islamic charity seen as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
She was one of four soldiers to be killed when her Snatch Land Rover was caught in an explosion in the Lashkar Gah area.
Indian investigators have said survivor Azam Amir Qasab was indoctrinated by Lashkar-e-Taiba (Soldiers of the Pure) and trained at a camp run by the group.
Six other soldiers were injured in the blast near Lashkar Gah as UK and US troops started a major offensive against Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan.
Pakistani media reports from 2003 said "Abdul Hayee, " a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader, was arrested that year in Punjab and had connections to the murder of Mr. Pearl.
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Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite.
The operation started in mid-June with an air assault along a canal about 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the city of Lashkar Gah, the ministry said.
Seven areas controlled by the American-led international force are to be transferred to Afghan command, including Lashkar Gah in Helmand, until recently a hotbed of Taliban activity.
Speaking about the threat levels at Lashkar Gar HQ on the day of the shooting, he said all UK soldiers were "aware of the threat" from ANA soldiers.
But it's hard to find any evidence of it in Helmand, where the tarmac on the roads runs out well before you leave the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
India blamed the attacks on Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist faction.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad points out that last week, people linked to one of those groups, Lashkar-e-Islam, were taken into custody by a government-backed tribal force.
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