Conflict: | Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Partof: | the war on terror and the spillover of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
Date: | 16 March 2004present ---- First phase: 16 March 2004 – 22 February 2017 Second phase: 23 February 2017 – present |
Place: | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (including the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas), Pakistan |
Status: | Ongoing (Low-level insurgency)[1] |
Combatant1: | Pakistan
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Combatant2: | Jihadist insurgents
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Commander1: | Asif Ali Zardari(2024–present) Asim Munir (2022–present) Former military commanders Former head of states Former army officers |
Commander2: | Noor Wali Mehsud Maulana Fazlullah Khan Said 'Sajna' Adnan Rashid Mangal Bagh Hakimullah Mehsud Abdullah Mehsud Baitullah Mehsud Maulvi Nazir Hafiz Gul Bahadur Omar Khalid Khorasani[14] Khalid Balti Azam Tariq Shahidullah Shahid Mullah Dadullah Wali-ur-Rehman Qari Hussain Faqir Mohammed[15] Maulvi Omar Muslim Khan Hayatullah Shah Dauran Sher Muhammad Qusab Nek Muhammad Wazir Abdul Rashid Ghazi Sufi Muhammad[16] 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 Saeed al-Masri Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan Sheikh Fateh[17] Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah[18] Asim Umar Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Abu Faraj al-Libbi Ramzi bin al-Shibh Abu Zubaydah---- ISIL Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Hafiz Saeed Khan[19] Abdul Rahman Ghaleb Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost (2014–2015)[20] [21] Usman Ghazi[22] IMU Group Usman Ghazi Tohir Yuldashev Najmiddin Jalolov Abu Usman Adil---- ETIM Group Emeti Yakov Memetimin Memet |
Strength1: | Pakistan 200,000 Pakistani troops[23] [24] Unknown no. of air squadrons of Navy and Pakistan Air Force fighter jets, including JF-17 and F-16 jets[25] ~10,000 Frontier Corps----United States UAV drones CIA operatives U.S. Special Operations Forces[26] |
Strength2: | ~25,000 TTP militia[27] ~2,000 Lashkar-e-Islam militia[28] ~1,000 TNSM militia[29] 300–3,000 al-Qaeda militants[30] ----
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Casualties1: | Pakistan: 4,631 soldiers and LEAs killed (per SATP) 8,214 killed soldiers and LEAs and 14,583 wounded (per the Watson Institute; by mid-2016)[32] ----United States: 15 soldiers killed (2010)[33] |
Casualties2: | 29,398 militants killed (per SATP) 31,000 killed (per the Watson Institute; by mid-2016) |
Casualties3: | 9,394 civilians and 1,946 unidentified killed (per SATP) 22,100 civilians killed (per the Watson Institute; by mid-2016) 46,872 killed overall (per SATP) 61,549 killed overall (per the Watson Institute; by mid-2016) 41,819 killed overall all over Pakistan (Uppsala Conflict Data Program; 1989–2019)[34] ----Over 3.44 million civilians displaced (2009)[35] Over 6 million civilians displaced (2003–2019)[36] |
Naval Chief]]'''≪Br /≫[[Muhammad Zakaullah]] (2014–Present)≪Br /≫[[Afzal Tahir]] (2005–08)≪Br /≫[[Noman Bashir]]≪Ref Name: | "The New York Times, ROBERT MACKEY">News: ROBERT MACKEY. Before Attack, Pakistan's Navy Boasted of Role in Fight Against Taliban. 13 November 2012. The New York Times, ROBERT MACKEY. 23 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120617162912/http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/before-attack-pakistans-navy-boasted-of-role-in-fight-against-taliban/. 17 June 2012. dead. (2008–11) |
Territory: | Pakistan gains control of previously ungoverned Tribal Areas[37] [38] |