Outcomes of operation,
- 1. “Zarb-e-Azb”
- 2. INTRODUCTION Zarb e Azb means sharp and cutting It started on the reaction of militant attack on Karachi Airport on 8 Jun 2014 The operation is against militant groups like TTP, Haqqani network and foreign terrorist like Al-Qaida and East Turkmenistan Islamic Movement-ETIM The operation started on 15 Jun 14 with deployment of 30,000 Pak army soldiers Pak army, civil society, political parties, religious figures and media has appreciated the operation.
- 3. FATA FATA – Federally Administered Tribal Areas Borders with Afg to the north –west, KPK to east, Bal to south Comprised of Area – 27220 sq km Population 3.3 million (1998 census) Has seven units Khyber Kurram Bajaur Mohmand Ourakzai North and South Waziristan
- 4. BACKGROUND Peace Negotiations PM Nawaz Sharif announced peace negotiation with TTP and first session held on 26 Mar 14 Govt wanted negotiations within Pak Constitution while TTP wanted Sharia law in the country Failure of Negotiations On 17 Feb 14 negotiations collapsed due to execution of 23 Pak FC soldiers On 17 Apr 14 TTP formally ended the ceasefire The peace talks suffered a deadlock due to TTP attack on Karachi airport that led to the killing of 26 people
- 5. REACTION Domestic Social media, political parties, policy makers and civil society appreciated the operation PTI endorsed the op Jammat e Islami opposed the op MQM suppoted the op ANP expressed reservations about the op Sunni Ulema Board issued a Fatwa declaring op as Jihad against militants Locals assured their support to the Govt for the op
- 6. REACTION International Afg assured Pak for providing every help in cooperation for the op UAE extended cooperation to Pak UN assured Pak for providing assistance to IDPs US supported the op China fully supported the op
- 7. OUTCOMES WAGHA BORDER SUICIDE ATTACK ON NOVEMBER 2 , 2014 , A SUICIDE BOMBING FOLLOWING THE DAILY PARADE TOOK PLACE AT WAGHA BORDER IN PAKISTAN, IN WHICH MORE THAN 55 KILLED AND OVER 200 INJURED. The attack was claimed by militant groups jamaat-ul-Ahrar and jundallah,sub- groups of TTP.
- 8. 2014 Peshawar school attack On 16 December 2014, seven gunmen belonging to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) entered an Army Public School in Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire on school staff and children, killing 145 people. The spokesperson of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Mohammad Omar Khorasani, took the responsibility for the attack and said it was revenge for Operation Zarb-e-Azb
- 9. Targeted killings of TTP terrorists by Pakistan Armed Forces and police encounters in Pakistan Responding to TTP's retaliatory attacks, Pakistan has mounted deadliest counter-retaliation on TTP; first removing the moratorium on executions of terrorists by the Presidential Order, and secondly establishing military courts commissions (roughly based on Gitmo). Pakistani authorities have issued "hang till death" orders to jail superintendents at the nationwide prisons. In weeks, a number of high value detainees convicted on a terrorism charges were hanged.
- 10. Since December 2014, Pakistan's intelligence community, law enforcement agencies, antiterrorism forces, and inter- provincial police have been engaged in deadly police encounters in all over the country. News media have been televising the live actions on tracking down the militants and targeting the TTP operatives in series of police encounters. In the afternoon of 20 December, the KP Police and the special agents of the FIA raided a safe house in Shabqadar, a town located in 30 km (19 mi) north of Peshawar. In an exchange of fire at the safe house, the KPK police and the other law enforcement agencies gunned down the six TTP fighters, including their commander and two other high value targets who assisted in the attack. At the night of December 20, the team of Pakistan Rangers personnel raided a safe house in Manghopir area of Karachi and killed five members of the TTP in a deadly shoot out.
- 11. On 22 December 2014, Karachi Police and the CID teams chased down and killed the TTP leader, Abid Muchar, along with his three associates in a police encounter. The same night, another action in took place in Karachi when the CID teams, in a high-speed chase in Hawke's Bay Beach, chased and apprehended five members of al-Qaeda's South Asian chapter who are suspected of planning an attack on a naval dockyard in Karachi in September.
- 12. Acting on a MI information, the navy's SSGN teams were inserted in secret hideout in Khyber Agency and stalked the six terrorists led by Saddam Jan— the mastermind of the Army Public School attack— at the midnight of 26 December 2014. In a late night operations, the SSGN combat teams reportedly hunted and killed Jan along with his six militants, while trying to seek sanctuary. An unnamed senior Pakistan government official confirmed the report.
- 13. On January 9, 2015, the CID teams gunned down the four al-Qaeda operatives after another high speed chase took place in Qayyumabad in Karachi. In another separate midnight action in Lahore, the teams of FIA's special agents, assisted by the Punjab Police, raided a house located in Burki Road. Lasting almost two-hour gun battle, the FIA teams hunted and gunned down Roohullah (alias: Asadullah)—the mastermind of the Wagah border attack along with three of his associates. Since the attack, the FIA had been on a hunt for Roohullah and was finally killed in a police encounter in Lahore.