The Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is an insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan. It involves the United States, United Kingdom, Pakistani military and Pakistani tribes against the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The main reason for the conflict was tensions breaking out between Pakistan Armed Forces and al-Qaeda in 2004. 3117 Pakistani armed forces members have been killed, as well as 235+ tribe members and 15 United States soldiers. 17742 insurgents have been killed or captured.[source?]
This article needs to be updated. (November 2019) |
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
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Part of The Global War on Terrorism and the spillover of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | |||||||
Intelligence map: Navy intelligence maps shows the districts of the FATA in blue and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in green. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Pakistan United States (see drone strikes in Pakistan) |
Taliban-aligned groups
ISIL-aligned groups
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Pervez Musharraf Ashfaq Kayani Asif Ali Zardari Nawaz Sharif Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi Raheel Sharif Qamar Javed Bajwa Imran Khan Masood Aslam Tariq Khan Rao Qamar Suleman Tahir Rafique Butt Sanaullah Niazi † |
Noor Wali Mehsud ISIL Usman Ghazi † Tohir Yuldashev † Najmiddin Jalolov † Abu Usman Adil † Mirzazhanov Atoyevich (WIA) | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Pakistan United States UAV drones CIA operatives U.S. Special Forces[21] |
~25,000 TTP militia[22] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Pakistan: United States: 15 soldiers killed (2010)[28] |
29,398 militants killed (per SATP)[3][4] 31,000 killed (per the Watson Institute; by mid-2016)[27] | ||||||
9,394 civilians and 1,946 unidentified killed (per SATP)[3][4] Over 3.44 million civilians displaced (2009)[30] Over 6 million civilians displaced (2003–2019)[31] |
During 2004, S.A.S. soldiers were ordered to take out a renegade police officer. Two men were caught by the police and taken back to the station. Tempers had already been running high because of an arrest by soldiers who had turned out to be agents working in the Taliban.[source?]
In 2023, the National Security Committee of Pakistan, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, decided to launch a new military operation to eliminate militants who pose a threat to the western regions of Pakistan.[32]
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