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	}}The '''insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa''', also known as the '''War in North-West Pakistan''' or '''Pakistan's war on terror''', is an ongoing armed conflict involving Pakistan and Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), TNSM, al-Qaeda, and their Central Asian allies such as the ISIL–Khorasan (ISIL), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkistan Movement, Emirate of Caucasus, and elements of organized crime. Formerly a war, it is now a low-level insurgency as of 2017.		}}The '''insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa''', also known as the '''War in North-West Pakistan''' or '''Pakistan's war on terror''', is an ongoing armed conflict involving Pakistan and Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), TNSM, al-Qaeda, and their Central Asian allies such as the ISIL–Khorasan (ISIL), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkistan Movement, Emirate of Caucasus, and elements of organized crime. Formerly a war, it is now a low-level insurgency as of 2017.

	The armed conflict began in 2004 when tensions rooted in the Pakistan Army's Hunt for al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan area (in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) escalated into armed ~~Organistation~~.<ref name="globalbearings1">[http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/video-series-pt-1-from-osama-to-obama.html "Pakistan Primer Pt. 1"] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929025157/http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/video-series-pt-1-from-osama-to-obama.html\|date=29 September 2015}} The Rise of the Pakistani Taliban, ''Global Bearings'', 27 October 2011.</ref> Pakistan's actions were presented as its contribution to the U.S. War on terror.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Killing scares media away from Waziristan\|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html\|work=[[Christian Science Monitor]]\|date=22 June 2006\|author=David Montero\|access-date=25 August 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618224919/http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html\|archive-date=18 June 2009\|url-status=live}}</ref> Clashes further erupted between unified Pakistan Armed Forces and the Central Asian militant groups,<ref name="United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism2">{{cite web\|last=U.S. Government\|title=Central Eurasian and Central Asian Terrorism\|url=http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|work=United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism\|access-date=2 July 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510223029/http://nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref> allied with the Arab fighters, in 2008–2010.<ref name="United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism3">{{cite web\|last=U.S. Government\|title=Central Eurasian and Central Asian Terrorism\|url=http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|work=United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism\|access-date=2 July 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510223029/http://nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Pakistan Strategic Think Tanks">{{cite web\|last=Thompson\|first=Clifford\|title=Terrorism from Central Asian Republics\|url=http://pakistanthinktank.org/category/indian-terrorism-from-central-asian-republics\|publisher=Pakistan Strategic Think Tanks\|access-date=2 July 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514035149/http://pakistanthinktank.org/category/indian-terrorism-from-central-asian-republics\|archive-date=14 May 2014\|url-status=live}}</ref> The foreign militants were joined by Pakistani non-military veterans of the Afghan War to the west, which subsequently established the TTP and other militant umbrella organisations, such as Lashkar-e-Islam.		The armed conflict began in 2004 when tensions rooted in the Pakistan Army's Hunt for al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan area (in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) soared and escalated into armed Resistance in the form of a organization.<ref name="globalbearings1">[http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/video-series-pt-1-from-osama-to-obama.html "Pakistan Primer Pt. 1"] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929025157/http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/video-series-pt-1-from-osama-to-obama.html\|date=29 September 2015}} The Rise of the Pakistani Taliban, ''Global Bearings'', 27 October 2011.</ref> Pakistan's actions were presented as its contribution to the U.S. War on terror.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Killing scares media away from Waziristan\|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html\|work=[[Christian Science Monitor]]\|date=22 June 2006\|author=David Montero\|access-date=25 August 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618224919/http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html\|archive-date=18 June 2009\|url-status=live}}</ref> Clashes further erupted between unified Pakistan Armed Forces and the Central Asian militant groups,<ref name="United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism2">{{cite web\|last=U.S. Government\|title=Central Eurasian and Central Asian Terrorism\|url=http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|work=United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism\|access-date=2 July 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510223029/http://nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref> allied with the Arab fighters, in 2008–2010.<ref name="United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism3">{{cite web\|last=U.S. Government\|title=Central Eurasian and Central Asian Terrorism\|url=http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|work=United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism\|access-date=2 July 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510223029/http://nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Pakistan Strategic Think Tanks">{{cite web\|last=Thompson\|first=Clifford\|title=Terrorism from Central Asian Republics\|url=http://pakistanthinktank.org/category/indian-terrorism-from-central-asian-republics\|publisher=Pakistan Strategic Think Tanks\|access-date=2 July 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514035149/http://pakistanthinktank.org/category/indian-terrorism-from-central-asian-republics\|archive-date=14 May 2014\|url-status=live}}</ref> The foreign militants were joined by Pakistani non-military veterans of the Afghan War to the west, which subsequently established the TTP and other militant umbrella organisations, such as Lashkar-e-Islam.

	The war depleted the country's manpower resources, and the outcomes outlined a deep effect on its national economy, since Pakistan had joined the American-led War on Terror.<ref name="The Washington Times, 2013">{{cite news\|last=Shaun Waterman\|title=Heavy price: Pakistan says war on terror has cost nearly 50,000 lives there since 9/11\|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/heavy-price-pakistan-says-war-terror-has-cost-near/\|access-date=16 June 2013\|newspaper=The Washington Times\|date=27 March 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601224950/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/heavy-price-pakistan-says-war-terror-has-cost-near/\|archive-date=1 June 2013\|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2018, according to Ministry of Finance (MoF) statistics and mathematical data survey collections, the economy has suffered direct and indirect losses as high as $126.79 billion since 2001 because of Pakistan's role as a "frontline state". According to the MoF-issued Pakistan Economic Survey 2010–2011, "Pakistan has never witnessed such a ~~devastating~~ social and economic upheaval in its industry, even after dismemberment of the country by a direct war with India in 1971."<ref name="Dawn News, Economic Survey">{{cite news\|last=From the Newspapers\|title=War on terror cost Pakistan $67.9 billion\|url=http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/\|access-date=16 June 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News, Economic Survey\|date=20 June 2011\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524132025/http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/\|archive-date=24 May 2013}}</ref>		The war depleted the country's manpower resources, and the outcomes outlined a deep effect on its national economy, since Pakistan had joined the American-led War on Terror.<ref name="The Washington Times, 2013">{{cite news\|last=Shaun Waterman\|title=Heavy price: Pakistan says war on terror has cost nearly 50,000 lives there since 9/11\|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/heavy-price-pakistan-says-war-terror-has-cost-near/\|access-date=16 June 2013\|newspaper=The Washington Times\|date=27 March 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601224950/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/heavy-price-pakistan-says-war-terror-has-cost-near/\|archive-date=1 June 2013\|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2018, according to Ministry of Finance (MoF) statistics and mathematical data survey collections, the economy has suffered direct and indirect losses as high as $126.79 billion since 2001 because of Pakistan's role as a "frontline state". According to the MoF-issued Pakistan Economic Survey 2010–2011, "Pakistan has never witnessed such a Catastrophic social and economic upheaval in its industry, even after dismemberment of the country by a direct war with India in 1971."<ref name="Dawn News, Economic Survey">{{cite news\|last=From the Newspapers\|title=War on terror cost Pakistan $67.9 billion\|url=http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/\|access-date=16 June 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News, Economic Survey\|date=20 June 2011\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524132025/http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/\|archive-date=24 May 2013}}</ref>

	After the Pakistani military launched a ~~major~~ offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in 2014, its leaders escaped to Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Shah\|first1=Aqil\|title=What Will Happen to Afghanistan and Pakistan's Uneasy Border?\|url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/13/what-will-happen-to-afghanistan-and-pakistan-s-uneasy-border-pub-85152\|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace}}</ref> By 2014, the casualty rates from terrorism in the country as a whole dropped by 40% as compared to 2011–2013, with even greater drops noted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,<ref name="Foreign Policy, 2014">{{cite news\|title=A Small Measure of Progress\|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/\|first=Julia\|last=Thompson\|date=22 December 2014\|newspaper=[[Foreign Policy]]\|access-date=12 March 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412035056/http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/\|archive-date=12 April 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref> despite a large massacre of schoolchildren by TTP terrorists in the province in December 2014. The reduction in hostilities eventually changed the conflict from a war to a relatively low-level conflict.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Jadoon\|first1=Amira\|title=The Evolution and Potential Resurgence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan\|url=https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/sr_494-the_evolution_and_potential_resurgence_of_the_tehrik_i_taliban_pakistan.pdf\|website=United States Institute of Peace\|date=May 2021}}</ref>		After the Pakistani military launched a Extensive offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in 2014, its leaders escaped to Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Shah\|first1=Aqil\|title=What Will Happen to Afghanistan and Pakistan's Uneasy Border?\|url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/13/what-will-happen-to-afghanistan-and-pakistan-s-uneasy-border-pub-85152\|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace}}</ref> By 2014, the casualty rates from terrorism in the country as a whole dropped by 40% as compared to 2011–2013, with even greater drops noted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,<ref name="Foreign Policy, 2014">{{cite news\|title=A Small Measure of Progress\|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/\|first=Julia\|last=Thompson\|date=22 December 2014\|newspaper=[[Foreign Policy]]\|access-date=12 March 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412035056/http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/\|archive-date=12 April 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref> despite a large massacre of schoolchildren by TTP terrorists in the province in December 2014. The reduction in hostilities eventually changed the conflict from a war to a relatively low-level conflict.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Jadoon\|first1=Amira\|title=The Evolution and Potential Resurgence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan\|url=https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/sr_494-the_evolution_and_potential_resurgence_of_the_tehrik_i_taliban_pakistan.pdf\|website=United States Institute of Peace\|date=May 2021}}</ref>

	After negotiations, the Tehreek-e-Taliban and the government announced a ceasefire in June 2022. However, on November 2022, the Tehreek-e-Taliban ~~renounced~~ the ceasefire and called for nationwide attacks against Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2022-11-28\|title=TTP calls off ceasefire, orders terrorist attacks across Pakistan\|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2388616/ttp-calls-off-ceasefire-orders-terrorist-attacks-across-pakistan\|access-date=2022-11-29\|website=The Express Tribune\|language=en}}</ref>		After negotiations, the Tehreek-e-Taliban and the government announced a ceasefire in June 2022. However, on November 2022, the Tehreek-e-Taliban repudiated the ceasefire and called for nationwide terrorist attacks against Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2022-11-28\|title=TTP calls off ceasefire, orders terrorist attacks across Pakistan\|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2388616/ttp-calls-off-ceasefire-orders-terrorist-attacks-across-pakistan\|access-date=2022-11-29\|website=The Express Tribune\|language=en}}</ref>

	*[[~~List~~ of ~~ongoing armed conflicts~~]]		= Names and Title"s for the war =
			Various names have been applied to the conflict by the authors and historians. Names used in English include: Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, War in North-West Pakistan, Waziristan War, or the Pakistan's war on terror. On the other hand, political scientist, [[Farrukh Saleem]], termed the war as the "Fourth Generation War" or the "4G War".<ref name="The News International Sunday, 29 April 2012">{{cite news\|last=Farrukh Salim\|title=4G War\|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-105618-4G-War\|access-date=7 June 2013\|newspaper=The News International Sunday, 20 April 2002\|date=29 April 2012\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715184736/http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-105618-4G-War\|archive-date=15 July 2012}}</ref>

			= Background =
			At the request of the Pakistani government, the Pakistan Army started an official troop deployment in the wake of the Battle of Tora Bora, also known as the Black Caves, in 2002.The Pakistan Muslim League,<ref name="Dawn News archives, 2002">{{cite news\|last=Correspondents\|title=Govt warned against US operation in Fata\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/05/06/nat1.htm\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701080848/http://archives.dawn.com/2002/05/06/nat1.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=1 July 2013\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News archives, 2002\|date=6 May 2002}}</ref> one of the conservative parties, was particularly critical of the troop deployments in the area. For the first time since Pakistan gained independence in 1947,<ref name="Dawn News, May 2002">{{cite news\|last=Our Correspondent\|title=Tribesmen allow army to enter Shawal\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/06/06/nat2.htm\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701080941/http://archives.dawn.com/2002/06/06/nat2.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=1 July 2013\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News, May 2002\|date=6 June 2002}}</ref> the XI Corps, led by Lieutenant-General Jan Aurkzai, entered the Tirah Valley in the Khyber Agency. Afterwards, the army forces advanced into North Waziristan's Shawal Valley before reaching South Waziristan.<ref name="Dawn News, May 20022">{{cite news\|last=Our Correspondent\|title=Tribesmen allow army to enter Shawal\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/06/06/nat2.htm\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701080941/http://archives.dawn.com/2002/06/06/nat2.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=1 July 2013\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News, May 2002\|date=6 June 2002}}</ref> The Special Service Group [Navy] constructed a surveillance reconnaissance facility in 2003.<ref name="Dawn News, May 20023">{{cite news\|last=Our Correspondent\|title=Tribesmen allow army to enter Shawal\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/06/06/nat2.htm\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701080941/http://archives.dawn.com/2002/06/06/nat2.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=1 July 2013\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News, May 2002\|date=6 June 2002}}</ref> A sizable communist party in Peshawar began criticizing Musharraf and the US in 2003 and called for a halt to the operations.<ref name="Dawn 2003, 10 August,">{{cite news\|last=Bureau Chief\|title=Occupation of sovereign states by US flayed\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2003/08/10/nat7.htm\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn 2003, 10 August\|date=10 August 2003\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021145856/http://archives.dawn.com/2003/08/10/nat7.htm\|archive-date=21 October 2013}}</ref>

			As the Tribes started to perceive the military's deployment and the PAF's frequent flights over the area as an act of subjugation,<ref name="Dawn, 10 20032">{{cite news\|last=By Our Staff Reporter\|title=Wana operation condemned\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2003/10/06/nat5.htm\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn, 10 2003\|date=6 October 2003\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021150348/http://archives.dawn.com/2003/10/06/nat5.htm\|archive-date=21 October 2013}}</ref> the problems grew in 2003. In public remarks from 2003–2004, Musharraf defended army deployments<ref name="Dawn archives, 2003">{{cite news\|last=Our Reporter\|title=Occupation of sovereign states by US flayed\|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2003/08/10/nat7.htm\|access-date=1 July 2013\|newspaper=Dawn archives, 2003\|date=10 August 2003\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021145856/http://archives.dawn.com/2003/08/10/nat7.htm\|archive-date=21 October 2013}}</ref> in the area in spite of reservations and urged for the removal of foreign fighters from South Waziristan on multiple occasions. South Waziristan was linked to at least two attempts on President Pervez Musharraf's life in December 2003. In response, the government increased military pressure in the region. But the battle was expensive: between 2004 and the beginning of 2005, the government suffered significant deaths in the military, leading it to abandon direct combat in favor of diplomatic measures.<ref name="rohde">{{cite news\|title=Al Qaeda Finds Its Center of Gravity\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/weekinreview/10rohde.html\|first=David\|last=Rohde\|work=[[The New York Times]]\|date=10 September 2006\|access-date=12 September 2006\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113061838/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/weekinreview/10rohde.html\|archive-date=13 November 2013\|url-status=live\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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	Over 6 million civilians displaced (2003–2019)<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-as-death-toll-rises-pashtun-lawmaker-calls-for-waziristan-protest/29965861.html\|title=In source: "A majority of the more than 70,000-plus civilians killed in this violence were Pashtuns, while more than 6 million members of the ethnic group have endured displacement since the onset of conflict in 2003."\|publisher=Gandhara\|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref>\|<nowiki>Tariq Khan]] </nowiki><small>(2008–10)</small><br />[[Nadir Zeb]] <small>(2010–12)</small><br />'''[[Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan)\|Air Chief]]'''<br />[[Tahir Rafique Butt]] <small>(2012–present)</small><br />[[Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed\|Tavier Ahmad]] <small>(2006–09)</small><br />[[Rao Qamar Suleman\|Rao Suleman]] <small>(2009–12)</small><br />'''[[Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan)\|Naval Chief]]'''<br />[[Muhammad ZakaUllah]] <small>(2014–present)</small><br />[[Afzal Tahir]] <small>(2005–08)</small><br />[[Noman Bashir]]<ref name="The New York Times, ROBERT MACKEY">{{cite news\|last=ROBERT MACKEY\|title=Before Attack, Pakistan's Navy Boasted of Role in Fight Against Taliban\|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/before-attack-pakistans-navy-boasted-of-role-in-fight-against-taliban/\|access-date=13 November 2012\|newspaper=The New York Times, ROBERT MACKEY\|date=23 May 2011<!--, 6:46 pm-->\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617162912/http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/before-attack-pakistans-navy-boasted-of-role-in-fight-against-taliban/\|archive-date=17 June 2012\|url-status=dead}}</ref> <small>(2008–11)</small>		Over 6 million civilians displaced (2003–2019)<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-as-death-toll-rises-pashtun-lawmaker-calls-for-waziristan-protest/29965861.html\|title=In source: "A majority of the more than 70,000-plus civilians killed in this violence were Pashtuns, while more than 6 million members of the ethnic group have endured displacement since the onset of conflict in 2003."\|publisher=Gandhara\|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref>\|<nowiki>Tariq Khan]] </nowiki><small>(2008–10)</small><br />[[Nadir Zeb]] <small>(2010–12)</small><br />'''[[Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan)\|Air Chief]]'''<br />[[Tahir Rafique Butt]] <small>(2012–present)</small><br />[[Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed\|Tavier Ahmad]] <small>(2006–09)</small><br />[[Rao Qamar Suleman\|Rao Suleman]] <small>(2009–12)</small><br />'''[[Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan)\|Naval Chief]]'''<br />[[Muhammad ZakaUllah]] <small>(2014–present)</small><br />[[Afzal Tahir]] <small>(2005–08)</small><br />[[Noman Bashir]]<ref name="The New York Times, ROBERT MACKEY">{{cite news\|last=ROBERT MACKEY\|title=Before Attack, Pakistan's Navy Boasted of Role in Fight Against Taliban\|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/before-attack-pakistans-navy-boasted-of-role-in-fight-against-taliban/\|access-date=13 November 2012\|newspaper=The New York Times, ROBERT MACKEY\|date=23 May 2011<!--, 6:46 pm-->\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617162912/http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/before-attack-pakistans-navy-boasted-of-role-in-fight-against-taliban/\|archive-date=17 June 2012\|url-status=dead}}</ref> <small>(2008–11)</small>
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	}}The '''~~Insurgency~~ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa''' is an ~~[[insurgency]] in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], northwest [[~~Pakistan~~]]. It involves~~ the ~~[[United States]]~~, ~~[[United Kingdom]]~~, ~~[[Pakistani military]] and [[Pakistanis\|Pakistani]] [[tribe]]s 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 [[insurgent]]s have been killed or captured~~.~~{{fact\|date=November 2021}}~~		}}The '''insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa''', also known as the '''War in North-West Pakistan''' or '''Pakistan's war on terror''', is an ongoing armed conflict involving Pakistan and Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), TNSM, al-Qaeda, and their Central Asian allies such as the ISIL–Khorasan (ISIL), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkistan Movement, Emirate of Caucasus, and elements of organized crime. Formerly a war, it is now a low-level insurgency as of 2017.

	~~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.{{~~fact~~\|date=~~November 2021~~}}		The armed conflict began in 2004 when tensions rooted in the Pakistan Army's Hunt for al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan area (in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) escalated into armed Organistation.<ref name="globalbearings1">[http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/video-series-pt-1-from-osama-to-obama.html "Pakistan Primer Pt. 1"] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929025157/http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/video-series-pt-1-from-osama-to-obama.html\|date=29 September 2015}} The Rise of the Pakistani Taliban, ''Global Bearings'', 27 October 2011.</ref> Pakistan's actions were presented as its contribution to the U.S. War on terror.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Killing scares media away from Waziristan\|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html\|work=[[Christian Science Monitor]]\|date=22 June 2006\|author=David Montero\|access-date=25 August 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618224919/http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p07s02-wosc.html\|archive-date=18 June 2009\|url-status=live}}</ref> Clashes further erupted between unified Pakistan Armed Forces and the Central Asian militant groups,<ref name="United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism2">{{cite web\|last=U.S. Government\|title=Central Eurasian and Central Asian Terrorism\|url=http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|work=United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism\|access-date=2 July 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510223029/http://nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref> allied with the Arab fighters, in 2008–2010.<ref name="United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism3">{{cite web\|last=U.S. Government\|title=Central Eurasian and Central Asian Terrorism\|url=http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|work=United States Government National Center for Counter-terrorism\|access-date=2 July 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510223029/http://nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html\|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Pakistan Strategic Think Tanks">{{cite web\|last=Thompson\|first=Clifford\|title=Terrorism from Central Asian Republics\|url=http://pakistanthinktank.org/category/indian-terrorism-from-central-asian-republics\|publisher=Pakistan Strategic Think Tanks\|access-date=2 July 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514035149/http://pakistanthinktank.org/category/indian-terrorism-from-central-asian-republics\|archive-date=14 May 2014\|url-status=live}}</ref> The foreign militants were joined by Pakistani non-military veterans of the Afghan War to the west, which subsequently established the TTP and other militant umbrella organisations, such as Lashkar-e-Islam.

			The war depleted the country's manpower resources, and the outcomes outlined a deep effect on its national economy, since Pakistan had joined the American-led War on Terror.<ref name="The Washington Times, 2013">{{cite news\|last=Shaun Waterman\|title=Heavy price: Pakistan says war on terror has cost nearly 50,000 lives there since 9/11\|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/heavy-price-pakistan-says-war-terror-has-cost-near/\|access-date=16 June 2013\|newspaper=The Washington Times\|date=27 March 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601224950/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/heavy-price-pakistan-says-war-terror-has-cost-near/\|archive-date=1 June 2013\|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2018, according to Ministry of Finance (MoF) statistics and mathematical data survey collections, the economy has suffered direct and indirect losses as high as $126.79 billion since 2001 because of Pakistan's role as a "frontline state". According to the MoF-issued Pakistan Economic Survey 2010–2011, "Pakistan has never witnessed such a devastating social and economic upheaval in its industry, even after dismemberment of the country by a direct war with India in 1971."<ref name="Dawn News, Economic Survey">{{cite news\|last=From the Newspapers\|title=War on terror cost Pakistan $67.9 billion\|url=http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/\|access-date=16 June 2013\|newspaper=Dawn News, Economic Survey\|date=20 June 2011\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524132025/http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/\|archive-date=24 May 2013}}</ref>

			After the Pakistani military launched a major offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in 2014, its leaders escaped to Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Shah\|first1=Aqil\|title=What Will Happen to Afghanistan and Pakistan's Uneasy Border?\|url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/13/what-will-happen-to-afghanistan-and-pakistan-s-uneasy-border-pub-85152\|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace}}</ref> By 2014, the casualty rates from terrorism in the country as a whole dropped by 40% as compared to 2011–2013, with even greater drops noted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,<ref name="Foreign Policy, 2014">{{cite news\|title=A Small Measure of Progress\|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/\|first=Julia\|last=Thompson\|date=22 December 2014\|newspaper=[[Foreign Policy]]\|access-date=12 March 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412035056/http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/\|archive-date=12 April 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref> despite a large massacre of schoolchildren by TTP terrorists in the province in December 2014. The reduction in hostilities eventually changed the conflict from a war to a relatively low-level conflict.<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Jadoon\|first1=Amira\|title=The Evolution and Potential Resurgence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan\|url=https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/sr_494-the_evolution_and_potential_resurgence_of_the_tehrik_i_taliban_pakistan.pdf\|website=United States Institute of Peace\|date=May 2021}}</ref>

			After negotiations, the Tehreek-e-Taliban and the government announced a ceasefire in June 2022. However, on November 2022, the Tehreek-e-Taliban renounced the ceasefire and called for nationwide attacks against Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2022-11-28\|title=TTP calls off ceasefire, orders terrorist attacks across Pakistan\|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2388616/ttp-calls-off-ceasefire-orders-terrorist-attacks-across-pakistan\|access-date=2022-11-29\|website=The Express Tribune\|language=en}}</ref>

	~~==Related pages==~~
	*[[List of ongoing armed conflicts]]		*[[List of ongoing armed conflicts]]

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