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'''Al-Badar''' (আল বদর) was a paramilitary force formed in ] in ] by the army of ].

==Naming and Inspirations==
'''Al-Badar''' means '''The Battlefield of Badar'''. The politics of the force were intermingled with ], the religious war or ] of ] a thousand year earliar. However, while the original Jihad was also between two parties of ], the war between Pakistan and Bangladesh was a war for ], not ] reasons.

==Background==
On ], after beginning the ], Pakistani military forces required military support from ] supporters as well as the non-Bengali muhazirs in order to abolish the freedom fighters of Bangladesh, the ], ] and ]. The Al Badar were formed to detect these freedom fighters and to have guides as well as co-fighters who were familiar with the local terrain.

The force was composed of madrasa students-teachers, supporters of Muslim League and Jamaat E Islam, and ''muhazirs'' coming from non-Bengali part of India.

==Tasks==
The Al Badar were assigned a variety of combat and non-combat tasks including:
*Taking part in the operations
*Spying against Muktibahini
*Interrogation
*Working as the guides of the regular army
*Assassination
*Detecting and killing Bengali intellectuals
*Looting and supplying women-children to rape

==Abolition==
On ], 1971, Pakistan surrendered. Members of Al Badar, along with Rajakar, Al-Shams, and Shanti Committee were forgiven.

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