Operation Zarb-e-Azb

Part of the War in North-West Pakistan
and the Global War on Terrorism

– North Waziristan
– FATA
– Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Date

Main phase: 15 June 2014 – 3 April 2016 (1 year, 9 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Clearance phase: 3 April 2016 – present (9 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)

Location

Pakistan

Result

Operation underway, most areas under Pakistani control.

96% of North Waziristan cleared
(Till November 2016 as claimed by Pakistani Army)

Belligerents

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Insurgent groups

Formerly:

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (Rejoined TTP on 12 March 2015)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (Until Mid 2015)

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Wilayat Khorasan (from 2015)
- Jundallah
- Tehreek-e-Khilafat
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Commanders and leaders

Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif
((Prime Minister)
Rashad Mahmood
((Chairman joint chiefs)
Raheel Sharif
((Chief of Army Staff)

Commander of Operation Zarb-e-Azb

Lieutenant-General Hidayat-ur-Rehman

Major-General Zafar Khan

Insurgent groups
Maulana Fazlullah
Sheikh Khalid Haqqani
Sheharyar Mehsud
Adnan Rashid

Usman Ghazi †

Adnan el-Shukrijumah †

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
(Leader of ISIL)
Abu Alaa Afri †
(Deputy Leader of ISIL)
Hafiz Saeed Khan †(ISIL Emir of Afghanistan and Pakistan)
Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost (2014–2015)

Usman Ghazi †

Strength

Pakistan

20,000–30,000

Several thousand

Casualties and losses

587 killed
2,292 injured

In Pakistani offensive:
9,450+ killed (9000 killed & 450 hanged during 2 years)
1000+ arrested

4+ killed

2 civilians killed, 1 injured
140 civilians (mostly children) killed in TTP retaliation
929,859 IDPs registered (as of 14 July 2014)

External video
Zarb-i-Azb: In patriotic video, ISPR salutes soldiers as saviours
Farhan Saeed pays tribute to Pakistan Army in latest music video

Operation underway, most areas under Pakistani control.

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Insurgent groups

Formerly:

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif
((Prime Minister)
Rashad Mahmood
((Chairman joint chiefs)
Raheel Sharif
((Chief of Army Staff)

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