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North (purple) and South (blue) Waziristan and surrounding Federally Administered Tribal Areas and provinces. Waziristan lies between the Kurram River and the Gomal River.It borders the Kurram Agency in the north, Bannu in the northeast, Tank in the east, Dera Ismail Khan in the southeast, Sherani and Musakhel districts of Balochistan in the south and Khost, Paktia, and Paktika provinces of ...
North Waziristan District (Pashto: شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع شمالی وزیرستان) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is the northern part of Waziristan , a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan , bordering Afghanistan and covering 4,707 square kilometres ...
Under control of the Pakistan Army and allies; Under control of Islamist militants; Under control of the Baloch Liberation Army; Rural presence : Contested Government - Islamist militants; Government - Balochistan Liberation Army; Other Army base; Airport or air base (jet) Airport or air base (helicopter) Major port, naval base, or oil terminal ...
In 2009 Pakistan launched offensives to force the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from its territory in South Waziristan. [125] Some analysts say the fighting pushed TTP militants to the Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, where they have regrouped to threaten Pakistani border regions. [ 126 ]
On May 21, 2014, Pakistani military launched an airstrike campaign against insurgents in Waziristan region killing over 60 militants [3] [4] and wounding over 30. [4] [5] According to Pakistani military many foreign fighters including Uyghur, Chechens, Uzbeks and Arabs [1] [2] were killed.
Hafiz Gul Bahadur group (Urdu: حافظ گل بہادر گروپ) or HGB is a faction of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) based in North Waziristan and surrounding districts of the former FATA region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Miranshah was named after the Timurid ruler, Miran Shah, the son of Timur.. In 1905, the British constructed Miranshah Fort to control North Waziristan. In the early 1950s, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and the "Tochi Scouts" of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps carried out counter-insurgency operations from Miranshah Airfield and Miranshah Fort against the insurgency fomented by the ...
Following the operation, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offered a truce and peace negotiations resulting in a suspension of violence. In spite of the victory in the operation, on 21 May 2008 Pakistan signed a peace agreement with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Short-lived peace in South Waziristan. Operation Sirat-e-Mustaqeem