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The militants, emboldened by their success in FATA, moved into Islamabad where they sought to impose an extremist Sharia government on Pakistan. Their base of operations was the Lal Masjid in Islamabad. After a 6-month standoff, fighting erupted again in July 2007 when the Pakistani Military decided to use force to end the Lal Masjid threat.
Category:Military operations involving Pakistan. Category. : Military operations involving Pakistan. This category contains historical military operations which were planned or executed by modern state of Pakistan (1947 –Present). Please see the category guidelines for more information.
Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948. A war fought between India and Pakistan [ a] over the territory of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. Battle of Pandu. 1947 Poonch rebellion. Battle of Badgam. Military operations in Ladakh (1948) Military operations in Poonch (1948) Battle of Muzaffarabad. Operation Bison (Jammu & Kashmir 1948)
Since its establishment in 1947, Pakistan has been involved in numerous armed conflicts both locally and around the world.The main focus of its military operations have both historically and currently been on neighbouring India—against whom Pakistan has fought four major wars in addition to commonly-recurring border skirmishes and standoffs.
Pakistan National Guard is a military reserve force and a component of the Pakistan Army. Functioning as a "second line of defense" alongside the Pakistan Army Reserve and the Civil Armed Forces, the National Guard's primary roles include internal security, disaster relief and wartime support for the regular army.
Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. [8][9] Pakistan retrospectively justified the operation on the basis of anti-Bihari violence carried out en masse by the Bengalis earlier that month. [10][11][a] Ordered by ...
A unit photo of the Pakistan and the U.S. Armes in 2010, by Foreign Affairs. The military relations between Pakistan and the United States have been present since the two established diplomatic relations in 1947. [ 1 ] The United States and Pakistan's military have historically close ties and it was once called "America's most allied ally in ...
1970s operation in Balochistan. Pakistan Army Attack Helicopters HueyCobra AH-1S Cobras at AVN Base, Multan. The Fourth Balochistan Conflict was a four-year military conflict in Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, between the Pakistan Army and Baloch separatists and tribesmen that lasted from 1973 to 1977.