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Orakzai and Kurram offensive

Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham
Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The Orakzai Agency highlighted in yellow
DateBattle phase: In Kurram, September 2009[1] - June 2010.

Battle phase: In Orakzai, March 2010 - June 2010

Insurgency phase: June 2010 - January 2011
Location
Kurram Agency and Orakzai Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Result Pakistani victory[2][3][4][5]
Belligerents
Pakistan Pakistan Afghanistan TTP
TNSM
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Lt. Gen. Khalid Rabbani
ACM Rao Suleman
MG Tariq Khan		 Hakimullah Mehsud †
Afghanistan Waliur Rehman Mehsud †
Afghanistan Taj Gul †
Maulana Fazlullah
Mangal Bagh †
Units involved

Civil Armed Forces

 Pakistan Army

 Pakistan Air Force

Unknown
Strength
Frontier Corps and Regular Army: 45,000[7] Unknown
Casualties and losses

In Orakzai: 70 killed[8] 213 wounded[9]

In Kurram: 18 killed[10]

In Orakzai: 2,182-2,552 killed[6] In Kurram: 250+ killed[11]

333 insurgents captured[12]

At least 200,000 civilians displaced[13]

3,100 civilians killed in Kurram by Taliban[14]

The Orakzai and Kurram offensive, also known as Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham (Pashto: خوښ با دی شم; lit. 'I will teach you a lesson')[6] was a Pakistani military operation against the Tehrik-i-Taliban in the Orakzai Agency and Kurram Agency area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas that began on 23 March 2010.[7] It was part of the War in North-West Pakistan.

  1. ^ "Pakistan | Eighty per cent of Kurram cleared of militants, says army". Dawn.Com. 6 July 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  2. ^ Yusuf, Moeed. "Pakistan's Counterterrorism Challenge." Georgetown University Press, 2014, pp. 67-72. ISBN 978-1-62616-050-7
  3. ^ Fair, C. Christine. "Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War." Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 201-204. ISBN 978-0-19-989270-9
  4. ^ Shah, Pir Zubair. "Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham Concludes in Orakzai." The New York Times, 15 June 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/world/asia/16pstan.html.
  5. ^ "Pakistan Declares Victory in Orakzai Offensive." Voice of America, 17 June 2010, www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/pakistan-declares-victory-orakzai-offensive.
  6. ^ a b c "Daily Tracker: Pakistani Military Operations in Orakzai". Critical Threats. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  7. ^ a b "Pakistani general: Al Qaida-Taliban haven to be cleared by June - Yahoo! News". Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  8. ^ "DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Six militants, one soldier killed in Orakzai fighting". Archived from the original on 29 October 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  9. ^ "600 militants killed, 250 held in Orakzai operation: official". thenews.com.pk. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
  10. ^ "Pakistan | Thirty-four militants killed in Orakzai, Kurram". Dawn.Com. 26 July 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  11. ^ "96 Militants Killed In Kurram:18 Troops - Pakistan". Zimbio. 6 July 2010. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  12. ^ "DAWN.COM | Provinces | Dozen militants killed in Orakzai clashes". Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  13. ^ "Pakistani army declares victory in Orakzai tribal area - People's Daily Online". English.people.com.cn. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  14. ^ "Innocent Shias and Sunnis of Kurram agency thrown to the Taliban wolves – by Tayyab Ali Shah | Let Us Build Pakistan". Criticalppp.com. 23 April 2010. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2010.

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