Definition of "lashkar" [lashkar]

• A camp of the native Indian regiments. (noun)
• A body of Afridi soldiers: so used in English newspaper accounts of the Afridi campaign, 1897. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that attack was a "reaction to the successes" of an anti-Taliban militia, known as a lashkar, in Badhber."
• "After the blast, enraged villagers formed a militia, known as a lashkar, of about 500 men to expel the militants from the area, said the top government official in the region."
• "Members of the militia - or "lashkar" - were filling their vehicles at a petrol station when the bomb exploded."