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War in North-West Pakistan

War in North-West Pakistan
Part of the Global War on Terrorism and the
spillover of the War in Afghanistan (2001–14)
Date 16 March 2004 – present
(12 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan
Status

Ongoing
Belligerents

 Pakistan

 United States

 United Kingdom

Taliban-aligned groups

Alleged support:

 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (from 2015)
Commanders and leaders
Pakistan Pakistan
President
Mamnoon Hussain (2013–present)
Asif Ali Zardari (2008–13)
Pervez Musharraf (2004–08)
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif (2013–present)
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (2012-13)
Yousaf Raza Gillani (2008–12)
Shaukat Aziz (2004–07)
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (2004)
Zafarullah Khan Jamali (2004)
Chairman JCSC
Zubair Hayat (2016–present)
Rashad Mahmood (2013–16)
Shameem Wynne (2010–13)
Tariq Majid (2007–10)
Ehsan ul Haq (2004–07)
Aziz Khan (2004)
Army Chief
Qamar Bajwa (2016–present)
Raheel Sharif (2013–16)
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (2007–13)
Pervez Musharraf (2004–07)
DG ISI
Naveed Mukhtar
(2016–present)
Rizwan Akhtar
(2014–2016)
Zaheerul Islam (2012–14)
Shuja Pasha (2008–12)
Nadeem Taj (2007–08)
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (2004–07)
Ehsan ul Haq (2004)

Tehrik-i-Taliban

Maulana Fazlullah (current commander)
Khan Saeed Mehsud Sajna  †(contender for power; alleged to have been killed)
Hafiz Gul Bahadur
Adnan Rashid
Mangal Bagh  †
Abdul Aziz Ghazi  (POW)
Hakimullah Mehsud  †
Abdullah Mehsud  †
Baitullah Mehsud  †
Maulvi Nazir  †
Faqir Mohammed  (POW)
Nek Muhammad Wazir  †
Abdul Rashid Ghazi  †
Sufi Muhammad  (POW)
Nasib Zada  †
al-Qaeda
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Osama bin Laden  †
Ilyas Kashmiri  †
Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim  †
Atiyah Abd al-Rahman  †
Abu Laith al-Libi  †
Abu Yahya al-Libi  †
Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti  †
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam  †
Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan  †
Sheikh Fateh  †
Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah  †

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Hafiz Saeed Khan †
Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost (2014–2015)
Usman Ghazi †

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant IMU Group
Usman Ghazi †
Tohir Yuldashev †
Najmiddin Jalolov †
Abu Usman Adil †
Strength

Pakistan

140,000 Pakistani troops
Unknown no. of air squadrons of Navy and PAF fighter jets, including JF-17 and F-16 jets
~10,000 Frontier Corps
United States
UAV drones
CIA operatives
U.S. Special Forces

~25,000 TTP militia
~2,000 Lashkar-e-Islam militia
~1,000 TNSM militia

300–3,000 al-Qaeda militants

 ISIL

  • Jundallah: 12,000–20,000 (Disputed)
  • IMU: 500–1,000
Casualties and losses
Pakistan:
7,000+ security forces personnel killed and 11,910+ soldiers wounded
United States:
15 soldiers killed		 33,345 militants killed
21,489 civilians killed
35,600–65,000+ killed overall (2003–16)
Over 3.44 million civilians displaced
Operation Rah-e-Shahadat
NWFP and FATA.jpg
Military Intelligence map: Domain of Pakistan Armed Forces Operations to the areas adjacent to Afghanistan.
Date 5 April 2013 – 30 June 2013
Location Tirah Valley, FATA
Result Pakistan Armed Forces victory
TTP forces evicted from the area
Commander(s) and Belligerent(s)
 Pakistan Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Swat Taliban
Lashkar-e-Islam
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
LGen Khalid Rabbani
Air Mshl Waseem-ud-din
RAdm Ather Mukhtar
MGen Ghayur Mehmood		 Hakimullah Mehsud
Maulana Fazlullah
Mangal Bagh Afridi
Omar Khalid Khorasani
Units involved
North–Western Forces Contingent
Strength
5,000 Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Hundreds

Ongoing

 Pakistan

 United States

 United Kingdom

Taliban-aligned groups

Alleged support:

 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (from 2015)

Tehrik-i-Taliban


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