Operation Zarb-e-Azb
Joint-military operation involving Pakistan against armed insurgent groups / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Operation Zarb-e-Azb (Pashto/Urdu: آپریشن ضربِ عضب ALA-LC: Āpres̱ẖan Ẓarb-i ʿAẓb; lit. 'Single Strike') was a joint military offensive conducted by the Pakistan Armed Forces against various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, al-Qaeda, Jundallah and Lashkar-e-Islam. The operation was launched on 15 June 2014 in North Waziristan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border as a renewed effort against militancy in the wake of the 8 June attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, for which the TTP and the IMU claimed responsibility.[1][2] As of 14 July 2014, the operation internally displaced about 929,859 people belonging to 80,302 families from North Waziristan.[3]
Operation Zarb-e-Azb | |||||||
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Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Global War on Terrorism | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Formerly:
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[21]
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Pakistan Nawaz Sharif (Prime Minister) Zubair Mahmood Hayat (Chairman Joint Chief of Staff) Raheel Shareef (Chief of Army Staff) Commanders of Operation Zarb-e-Azb Lieutenant-General Hidayat-ur-Rehman[23] Major-General Zafar Khan[24] |
Insurgent groups ISIL | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Pakistan 20,000[31]–30,000[32] |
Insurgent groups ISIL 500-1000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Pakistan 490 killed[33][34][35][36][37] 1,914 injured[35][36] |
Insurgent groups ISIL 46+ killed[38] | ||||||
929,859 internally displaced from North Waziristan (as of 14 July 2014)[3] 2 civilians killed, 1 injured[39][40] 140 civilians (mostly children) killed in TTP retaliation |
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Part of the war in North-West Pakistan, up to 30,000 Pakistani soldiers were involved in Zarb-e-Azb, described as a "comprehensive operation" to flush out all foreign and local militants hiding in North Waziristan.[41] The operation has received widespread support from the Pakistani political, defence and civilian sectors. As a consequence, the overall security situation improved and terrorist attacks in Pakistan dropped to a six-year low since 2008.[42] Zarb-e-Azb was followed by Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad which began in February 2017, following a resurgence in terrorist incidents.