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Operation Zarb-e-Azb (Pashto/آپریشن ضربِ عضب ALA-LC) was a joint military offensive conducted by the Pakistan Armed Forces against various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, al-Qaeda, Jundallah and Lashkar-e-Islam.^[1]

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Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost

Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost (Urdu: عبد الرحیممسلمدوست; born 1960) is an Afghan Salafi jihadist militant who served primarily with the Taliban, and later, as a founding member of ISIS–K.

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Abu Ali al-Anbari

Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli (ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Musṭafā al-Qādūlī; 1957 or 1959 March 2016), better known as Abu Ali al-Anbari (ʾAbū ʿAlī al-ʾAnbārī), was the governor for territories held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (28 July 197127 October 2019), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (translit), was an Iraqi militant who was the first caliph of the Islamic State (IS) from 2014 until his death in 2019.

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Administrative units of Pakistan

The administrative units of Pakistan comprise four provinces, one federal territory, and two disputed territories: the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan; the Islamabad Capital Territory; and the administrative territories of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan.

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Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah

Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (عدنان شكري جمعة, ʿAdnān Shukrī Jumaʿah) (4 August 1975 – 6 December 2014) was a citizen of Saudi Arabia and a senior member of Al-Qaeda.

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Adnan Rashid

Adnan Rashid (born 1 October 1979) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and militant commander of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and former junior technician of the Pakistan Air Force.

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Afghan National Security Forces

The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), also known as the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), were the military and internal security forces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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AK-47

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.

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Aka Khel

Aka Khel or Akakhel is an area of Landi Kotal Tehsil, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan located in the Tirah Valley.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (lit) usually abbreviated as AQIS, is a branch of the Islamist militant organization Al-Qaeda which aims to fight the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh in order to establish an Islamic state and seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Indian Subcontinent.

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Al-Qaeda safe house

Al-Qaeda is understood to have operated a number of safe houses, some of which were used as training centres.

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ALA-LC romanization

ALA-LC (American Library AssociationLibrary of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script.

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Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)

Altaf Hussain (الطاف حسین;; born 17 September 1953 in Karachi) is a British Pakistani politician who is known as the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Awami National Party

The Awami National Party (ANP; عوامی نيشنل پارٹی, عوامي نېشنل پارټي; lit. People's National Party) is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan.

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Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee.

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Babar Khan Ghauri

Babar Khan Ghauri (بابر خان غوری.) (born September 16, 1961) is a Pakistani politician from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Bannu

Bannu (translit,; بنوں|translit.

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Battle of Badr

The Battle of Badr (غَزْوَةُ بَدْرٍ), also referred to as The Day of the Criterion in the Qur'an and by Muslims, was fought on 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan, 2 AH), near the present-day city of Badr, Al Madinah Province in Saudi Arabia.

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Battle of Uhud

The Battle of Uhud was fought between the early Muslims and the Quraysh during the Muslim–Quraysh wars in a valley north of Mount Uhud near Medina on Saturday, 23 March 625 AD (7 Shawwal, 3 AH). After suffering defeat at the Battle of Badr and having their caravans endlessly raided by the Muslims, the Quraysh finally saw the necessity to take strong measures.

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Car chase

A car chase or vehicle pursuit is the vehicular overland chase of one party by another, involving at least one automobile or other wheeled motor vehicle, commonly hot pursuit of suspects by law enforcement.

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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) (صدرنشین مجلسِ مشترکہَ رؤسائے افواجِ پاکستان) is, in principle, the highest-ranking and senior most uniformed military officer, typically at four-star rank, in the Pakistan Armed Forces who serves as a Principal Staff Officer and a chief military adviser to the civilian government led by elected Prime minister of Pakistan and his/her National Security Council.

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Chairman of the State Duma

The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Председатель Государственной Думы Федерального собрания Российской Федерации), also informally called Speaker (спикер), is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Russian parliament.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan)

The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) is a position in the Pakistani Army held by a four-star general.

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Civil Armed Forces

The Civil Armed Forces (CAF) are a group of nine paramilitary, uniformed organisations, separate and distinct from the regular "military" Pakistan Armed Forces.

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Clear and hold

Clear and hold is a counter-insurgency strategy in which military personnel clear an area of guerrillas or other insurgents, and then keep the area clear of insurgents while winning the support of the populace for the government and its policies.

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Constitution of Pakistan

The Constitution of Pakistan (آئینِ پاکستان; ISO: Āīn-ē-Pākistān), also known as the 1973 Constitution, is the supreme law of Pakistan.

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Counter Terrorism Department (Pakistan)

The Counter Terrorism Department (سررشتہِ تحقیقاتِ جرائم، پاکستان; CTD) formerly known as the Crime Investigation Department (CID), are crime scene investigation, interrogation, anti-terrorism, and intelligence bureaus of the provincial police services of Pakistan.

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Covert Action Division

The Covert Action Division (CAD) is generally considered the most secretive special operations force of Pakistan.

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Dawn (newspaper)

Dawn is a Pakistani English-language newspaper that was launched in British India by Jinnah in 1941.

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Dawn News

Dawn News is a Pakistani 24-hour Urdu news channel.

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Director general

A director general or director-general (plural: directors general, directors-general, director generals or director-generals) is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.

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Drone strikes in Pakistan

Between 2004 and 2018, the United States government attacked thousands of targets in northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) operated by the United States Air Force under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Drone strikes in Pakistan are 2010s in Pakistan.

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Durand Line

The Durand Line (د ډیورنډ کرښه; ڈیورنڈ لائن; خط دیورند), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia.

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Eid al-Fitr

Eid al-Fitr (lit) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).

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Elite Police

The Elite Police (اشرافیہ پولیس), also known as the "Elite Police Force" or "Police Commandos", is a branch of the Punjab Police specializing in counter-terrorist operations and VIP security duties, as well as acting against serious crime and performing high-risk operations which can't be carried out by the regular police.

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Encounter killing

An encounter killing, often simply called an encounter, is an extrajudicial killing by police or the armed forces in South Asia, supposedly in self-defence when they encounter suspected gangsters or terrorists.

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Explosive belt

An explosive belt (also called suicide belt or a suicide vest) is an improvised explosive device, a belt or a vest packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by suicide bombers.

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Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, in the context of the early twenty-first century War on Terrorism, refers to foreign nationals the United States detains outside of the legal process required within United States legal jurisdiction.

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Fatwa

A fatwa (translit; label) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.

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Fazlullah (militant leader)

Fazal Hayat (1974 – 15 June 2018), more commonly known by his pseudonym Mullah Fazlullah (Pashto/ملا فضل اللہ), was an Islamist jihadist militant who was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, and was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Swat Valley.

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Federal Investigation Agency

The Federal Investigation Agency (وفاقی تحقیقاتی ایجنسی; reporting name: FIA) is a border control, criminal investigation, counter-intelligence and security agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, tasked with investigative jurisdiction on undertaking operations against terrorism, espionage, federal crimes, smuggling as well as infringement and other specific crimes.

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Frontier Corps

The Frontier Corps (سرحد واہنی, reporting name: FC), are a group of four paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan and Iran.

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General officer commanding

General officer commanding (GOC) is the usual title given in the armies of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (and some other nations, such as Ireland) to a general officer who holds a command appointment.

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Ghulam Khan

Ghulām Khān (Pashto/) is a town in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Ghulam Khan are Waziristan.

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Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan (حکومتِ پاکستان, abbreviated as GoP), constitutionally known as the Federal Government, commonly known as the Centre, is the national authority of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of four provinces and one federal territory.

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Guantanamo military commission

The Guantanamo military commissions were established by President George W. Bush through a military order on November 13, 2001, to try certain non-citizen terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

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Hafiz Gul Bahadur

Hafiz Gul Bahadur (born c.1961) is the leader of a Pakistani Taliban faction based in North Waziristan.

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Hafiz Saeed Khan

Hafiz Saeed Khan (1972 – 26 July 2016), also known as Mullah Saeed Orakzai, Shaykh Hafidh Sa'id Khan, or Maulvi Saeed Khan, was an Islamic militant and emir for the militant group Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) from January 2015 until his death in July 2016. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Hafiz Saeed Khan are Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Pakistan.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Haqqani network

The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government in the 21st century.

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Hawke's Bay Beach

Hawke's Bay or Hawkesbay is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, located 20 km southwest of Karachi city.

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Heavy machine gun

A heavy machine gun (HMG) is significantly larger than light, medium or general-purpose machine guns.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.

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Imran Khan

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (عمران احمد خان نیازی,; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who served as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Infantry

Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.

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Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are 2000s in Pakistan, 2010s in Pakistan, civil wars involving the states and peoples of Asia, religion-based civil wars, war on terror, wars involving Pakistan, wars involving the Taliban and Waziristan.

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Inter-Services Public Relations

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) (بین الخدماتی تعلقات عامہ), is the media and public relations wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

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Internally displaced person

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Iraq War are war on terror.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام&zwnj;آباد|translit.

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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU; Oʻzbekiston islomiy harakati; Исламское движение Узбекистана) was a militant Islamist group formed in 1998 by Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani; both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley.

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Islamic State – Khorasan Province

The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K, IS–K, IS–KP) is a regional branch of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State (IS) active in South-Central Asia, primarily Afghanistan and Pakistan. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Islamic State – Khorasan Province are Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Pakistan.

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Islamic terrorism

Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists.

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Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan)

Jamaat-e-Islami (Urdu:, English: Islamic Party; abbreviated JI), or Jamaat as it is commonly known, is an Islamist political party based in Pakistan and founded by Abul Ala Maududi.

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Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar ("Assembly of the Free," abbreviated as JuA) was a terrorist organization that split away from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in August 2014.

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Jihad

Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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Jinnah International Airport

Jinnah International Airport (جناح بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا), formerly Drigh Road Airport or Karachi Civil Airport, is Pakistan's busiest international and domestic airport, and handled 7,267,582 passengers in 2017–2018.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), (ہیئتِ مشترکہَ رؤسائے افواجِ پاکستان); is an administrative body of senior high-ranking uniformed military leaders of the unified Pakistan Armed Forces who advises the civilian Government of Pakistan, National Security Council, Defence Minister, President and Prime minister of Pakistan on important military and non-military strategic matters.

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Jundallah (Pakistan)

Jundallah (جندالله, lit. "Soldiers of God") was a militant group associated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Jundallah (Pakistan) are Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Pakistan.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Karachi Naval Dockyard

The Karachi Naval Dockyard, also refers as PN Dockyard, is a naval base located adjacent to the commercial Karachi Shipyard and the PNS Qasim.

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Khawaja Asif

Khawaja Muhammad Asif (born 9 August 1949) is a Pakistani politician who serves as the Defence Minister of Pakistan from 19 April 2022.

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Khyber District

Khyber District (خېبر ولسوالۍ, ضلع خیبر) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خېبر پښتونخوا; Hindko and,; abbr. KP), formerly known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, formerly known as the Frontier Police, is the provincial law enforcement agency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Kurram District

Kurram District (کرمولسوالۍ, ضلع کرم) is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Land mine

A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.

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Lashkar-e-Islam

Lashkar-e-Islam (label, abbr. LI or LeI), also written as Laskhar-i-Islam, is a Deobandi jihadist terrorist group operating in Khyber District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan and the neighboring Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; لشکر جھنگوی, Army of Jhangvi), is a Deobandi supremacist, terrorist and militant organisation based in Afghanistan.

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Law enforcement in Pakistan

Law enforcement in Pakistan (ادارہ ہائی نفاذِ قانون، پاکستان) is one of the three main components of the criminal justice system of Pakistan, alongside the judiciary and the prisons.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Light machine gun

A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon.

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List of television channels in Pakistan

This is a list of television channels in Pakistan.

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Major general

Major general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Manghopir

Manghopir Town, (منگھوپیر ٹاؤن) is a neighbourhood in the Orangi District of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, that previously was a part of Gadap Town until 2011, now it is one of the three towns of Orangi District of Karachi.

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Martyr

A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.

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Mianwali

Mianwali (Punjabi/مِيانوالى) city in Mianwali Tehsil, is the capital city of Mianwali District in Punjab, Pakistan.

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Midnight

Midnight is the transition time from one day to the next – the moment when the date changes, on the local official clock time for any particular jurisdiction.

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Militant

The English word militant is both an adjective and a noun, and it is generally used to mean vigorously active, combative and/or aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in "militant reformers".

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Military Intelligence (Pakistan)

The Pakistan Army Corps of Military Intelligence is a military administrative and the staff service branch of the Pakistan Army.

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Minister of Defence (Pakistan)

The Minister of Defence (Urdu: 'وزیرِ دفاع') heads the Ministry of Defence.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs (China)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and one of the country's top and most important cabinet posts.

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Mir Ali, Pakistan

Mir Ali or Mirali (میرعلي) is a town in North Waziristan District, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Mir Ali, Pakistan are Waziristan.

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Miranshah

Mīrānshāh (میران شاہ)(میران شاه) is a small town that is the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Miranshah are Waziristan.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Mujahideen Shura (North Waziristan)

The Mujahideen Shura was a council set up by jihadist groups such as the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan, Pakistan.

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Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) (متحدہ قومی موومنٹ (پاکستان) MQM-P) is a social liberal, Muhajir nationalist, and secularist political party.

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National Academy for Prisons Administration

National Academy for Prisons Administration (NAPA) formerly known as Central Jail Staff Training Institute (CJSTI) (قومی درسگاہ برائے تنظیمِ زنداں) is a Federal Government's training institute for prison staff of all four provinces of Pakistan.

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Nawaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu:; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms.

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North Waziristan District

North Waziristan District (شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ضلع شمالی وزیرستان) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and North Waziristan District are Waziristan.

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Offensive (military)

An offensive is a military operation that seeks through an aggressive projection of armed forces to occupy or recapture territory, gain an objective or achieve some larger strategic, operational, or tactical goal.

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Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad

Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad (آپریشن رد الفساد) was a combined military operation by the Pakistani military in support of local law enforcement agencies to disarm and eliminate the terrorist sleeper cells across all states of Pakistan, started on 22 February 2017. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and operation Radd-ul-Fasaad are military operations of the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Air Force

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (پاک فِضائیہ|translit.

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Pakistan Armed Forces

The Pakistan Armed Forces are the military forces of Pakistan.

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Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army, commonly known as the Pak Army (پاک فوج|translit.

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Pakistan Marines

The Pakistan Marines (Urdu) or simply as Pak Marines, is an expeditionary and amphibious warfare uniform service branch within the Pakistan Navy, consisting of the naval officers and other personnel to perform their duties within the Marines.

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Pakistan Navy

The Pakistan Navy (PN) (پاکستان بحریہ; ''romanized'': Pākistān Bahrí'a) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

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Pakistan Rangers

The Pakistan Rangers (پاکستان رینجرز) are a pair of paramilitary federal law enforcement corps' in Pakistan.

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; پاکستان تحريکِ انصاف) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

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The Pakistani intelligence community (جمیعت ہائے پاکستان برائے اشتراکِ سراغرسانی) comprises the various intelligence agencies of Pakistan that work internally and externally to manage, research and collect intelligence necessary for national security.

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Pakistani Taliban

The Pakistani Taliban, formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani border.

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Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.

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Prime Minister of Pakistan

The prime minister of Pakistan (وزِیرِ اعظمپاکستان, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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Prison warden

The warden (US, Canada) or governor (UK, Australia), also known as a superintendent (US, South Asia) or director (UK, New Zealand), is the official who is in charge of a prison.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Punjab Police (Pakistan)

The Punjab Police (Punjabi, Urdu) is a law enforcement agency of Punjab, Pakistan.

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Qayyumabad

Qayyumabad (قیومآباد.) is a suburb of Korangi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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Raheel Sharif

General Raheel Sharif (Urdu:; born 16th June 1956) is a retired four-star army general of the Pakistan Army who served as the ninth chief of army staff from 29 November 2013 to 29 November 2016.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rocket launcher

A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile.

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Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan (سيف بن زايد آل نهيان; born 1968) is United Arab Emirates's minister of interior since October 2004 and deputy prime minister since May 2009.

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Samaa TV

Samaa TV (سماء) is a Pakistani Urdu language news channel owned by Aleem Khan.

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Search and destroy

Seek and destroy (also known as search and destroy, or S&D) is a military strategy which consists of inserting infantry forces into hostile territory and directing them to search and then attack enemy targets before immediately withdrawing.

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Security checkpoint

Civilian checkpoints or security checkpoints are distinguishable from border or frontier checkpoints in that they are erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary control.

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Sergey Naryshkin

Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin (p; born 27 October 1954) is a Russian politician who has served as the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service since 2016.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Sindh Police

The Sindh Police (Urdu:, سنڌ پوليس), is a law enforcement agency established in 1843 under a proclamation issued by Sir Charles James Napier, who became the conqueror of the State of Sindh by defeating the forces of the Talpur rulers at the Battle of Miani near Hyderabad on 20 March 1843.

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Siraj-ul-Haq

Siraj-ul-Haq (Pashto: سراج الحق; born 5 September 1962) is a Pakistani politician who was elected as the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party in Pakistan which seeks to establish an Islamic legal system.

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Sniper rifle

A sniper rifle is a high-precision, long-range rifle.

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South Waziristan District

South Waziristan District (سويلي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ضلع جنوبی وزیرستان) was a district in the Dera Ismail Khan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, before splitting into the Lower South Waziristan District and the Upper South Waziristan District on 13 April 2022. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and South Waziristan District are Waziristan.

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Special agent

In the United States, a special agent is an official title used to refer to certain investigators or detectives of federal, military, tribal, or state agencies who primarily serve in criminal investigatory positions.

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Special Service Group

The Pakistan Army Special Service Group (reporting name:Army SSG) is the special operations forces of the Pakistan Army.

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Special Service Group (Navy)

The Pakistan Navy Special Service Group (reporting name: Navy SSG or simply Pakistan Navy SEALs) is the special operations force tasked with the conducting the small-unit based military operations in all environmental formats of the sea, air, and land by adopting to the tactics of the unconventional warfare.

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Special Services Wing

The Pakistan Air Force Special Services Wing is a special operations force who specialised in all aspects of air-to-ground communication, including air traffic control, fire support, command, control and communications in covert counterterrorism or austere environments.

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Supply depot

Supply depots are a type of military installation used by militaries to store battlefield supplies temporarily on or near the front lines until they can be distributed to military units.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Tank

A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.

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Tehsil

A tehsil (also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka) is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan.

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The Express Tribune

The Express Tribune is a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The News International

The News International, published in broadsheet size, is one of the largest English language newspapers in Pakistan.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Turkistan Islamic Party

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is a Uyghur Islamic extremist organization founded in Pakistan by Hasan Mahsum.

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Ulama

In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters.

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Usman Ghazi

Usman Ghazi was the Emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a militant group based in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Wang Yi (politician)

Wang Yi (Chinese: 王毅; born 19 October 1953) is a Chinese diplomat and politician who has been serving as Director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office since January 2023, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of China since July 2023 (previously from 2013 to 2022).

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War on terror

The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and war on terror are wars involving Pakistan and wars involving the Taliban.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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Zahid Khan (politician)

Muhammad Zahid Khan (Urdu: محمد زاہد خان born on 14th April, 1956) is a Pakistani politician.

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Zubair Mahmood Hayat

General Zubair Mahmood Hayat (born 1960) is a retired four-star rank army general of the Pakistan Army who served as the 16th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 28 November 2016 until his retirement on 27 November 2019.

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2014 Jinnah International Airport attack

On 8 June 2014, 10 militants armed with automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, suicide vests, and grenades attacked Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.

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2014 Peshawar school massacre

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

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2014 Wagah border suicide attack

On 2 November 2014, a suicide bombing took place at Wagah border following the daily border ceremony in Pakistan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Zarb-e-Azb

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