Srinagar, Sept. 23 -- Beyond the Middle East, Hamas's ideological influence has expanded into South Asia, particularly Pakistan a country known for harbouring extremist elements and ideologies. Pakistan-based terror organizations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) have increasingly aligned themselves with Hamas, forming a dangerous synergy of ideology and operational capabilities that poses a serious security challenge for world especially India. The Islamic Resistance Movement, better known as Hamas, was founded in 1987 shortly after the First Intifada by Palestinian scholar Ahmed Yasin. It is an Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organization with a military wing, and an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. ...