Mohmand Offensive

Mohmand Offensive
Part of the War in North-West Pakistan
Mohmand Agency is the yellow colored region
Date 3 November - ongoing Location Mohmand Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan Result Ongoing Failure to kill or capture Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Belligerents
Pakistan  Pakistan Army	Tehrik-i-Taliban
Commanders and leaders
LGen Masood Aslam	Maulana Fazlullah
Units involved
XI Corps Frontier Corps

Mohmand Offensive also known as Operation Brekhna (English: Thunder) is a Pakistani military operation against the Tehrik-i-Taliban in the Mohmand Agency area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas that began on 2009.^[1] It is part of the ongoing War in North-West Pakistan.

Start of Offensive

In late 2009 the Pakistani military had been engaged in a campaign to clear militants from the Mohmand Agency, with the commander of forces in the area claiming that 80 percent of militants had been cleared as of September 2009.^[1] The area, which borders Kunar Province, Afghanistan, had been the scene of violence prior to the attack as a result of spillover from neighbouring Afghanistan and other areas of Pakistan.^[1]

Chronology

2010

9 July. Main Article Mohmand Agency attack.
2 November. The Taliban fighters blew up a school for girls in Mohmand Agency.^[2]
3 November. At least 17 Pakistani Taliban insurgents were killed and 10 others injured, when the Pakistan Army, targeted and destroyed several militant hide-outs.^[1]
9 November. The Taliban fighters blew up a three school in Mohmand Agency.^[3]
14 November. At least 1 Pakistani soldier was killed after a landmine struck a Pakistan Army military vehicle within the Mohmand Agency, of north-western Pakistan.^[4]
15 November. The Taliban fighters blew up a primary school in Mohmand Agency. Since 2007, 67 schools were burned.^[5]
16 November. At least 6 Pakistani Taliban insurgents were killed and 19 others injured, when Pakistani Army helicopter gunships, targeted and destroyed militant positions within the Mohmand Agency, of north-western Pakistan.^[6]
6 December. Main Article December 2010 Mohmand Agency bombings.
11 December. At least 4 Pakistani Taliban insurgents were killed and 3 others injured, after insurgents were repelled in a checkpoint attack within the Mohmand Agency, of north-western Pakistan.^[7]
14 December. At least 2 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 6 others injured, after Pakistani Taliban insurgents launched an overnight attack on a security post within the Mohmand Agency, of north-western Pakistan.^[8]
23 December. At least 1 Pakistani citizen were killed and 3 others injured by a roadside bomb in Mohmand Agency.^[9]
24 December. At least 11 Pakistani soldiers and 24 Pakistani Taliban insurgents were killed, after some 150 insurgents launched a series of militant attacks against five Frontier Corps checkpoints within the Mohmand Agency, of north-western Pakistan.^[10]

2011

5 January. At least 39 Taliban insurgents were arrested by Pakistani army forces in Mohmand Agency.^[11]
14 January. At least 3 Pakistani citizen were killed and 1 other injured by a bomb explosion in Mohmand Agency.^[12]
20 February. At least 100 Taliban insurgents were killed in the past month in the Mohmand Аgency.^[13]

See also

• Orakzai and Kurram offensive
• War in North-West Pakistan

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "17 militants killed in Mohmand Agency". 2010-11-03. http://tribune.com.pk/story/71274/security-forces-kill-two-militants. Retrieved date=2010-11-05. 
2. ^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/71280/girls-school-in-mohmand-blown-up/
3. ^ http://public.dawn.com/2010/11/09/three-schools-bombed-in-mohmand.html
4. ^ http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SGE6AD01U.htm
5. ^ http://www.dawn.com/2010/11/16/another-school-blown-up-in-mohmand.html
6. ^ http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SGE6AF044.htm
7. ^ http://timeslahore.com/2010/12/11/nine-militants-killed-in-swat-mohmand-clashes/
8. ^ http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-security-developments-in-pakistan-dec-14/
9. ^ http://www.dawn.com/2010/12/23/man-killed-3-injured-in-mohmand-blast.html
10. ^ "Taliban launch attacks along north Pakistan border". BBC News. 24 December 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12072741. 
11. ^ http://www.dawn.com/2011/01/04/thirty-nine-suspected-militants-detained-after-mohmand-clash.html
12. ^ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\01\14\story_14-1-2011_pg7_3
13. ^ http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/20/military-operation-kills-up-to-15-militants.html