The Mohmand Offensive also known as Operation Brekhna ( en, Thunder) was a

Pakistani military The Pakistan Armed Forces (; ) are the military forces of Pakistan. It is the world's sixth-largest military measured by active military personnel and consist of three formally uniformed services—the Army, Navy, and the Air Force, which are ...

operation against the

Tehrik-i-Taliban The Pakistani Taliban (), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (Urdu/ ps, , lit=Student Movement of Pakistan, TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani bor ...

in the

Mohmand Agency Mohmand District ( ps, مومندو ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, with merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtun ...

area of the

Federally Administered Tribal Areas , conventional_long_name = Federally Administered Tribal Areas , nation = Pakistan , subdivision = Autonomous territory , image_flag = Flag of FATA.svg , image_coat = File:Coat of arms ...

that began in 2009.

Start of Offensive

In late 2009 the Pakistani military had been engaged in a campaign to clear criminals and terrorists from the

, with the commander of forces in the area claiming that 80 percent of the area had been cleared as of September 2009. The area, which borders

Kunar Province Kunar (Pashto: ; Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital is Asadabad. Its population is estimated to be 508,224. Kunar's major political groups include Wahhabis or Ahl-e- Ha ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, had been the scene of violence prior to the attack as a result of spillover from neighbouring Afghanistan and other areas of Pakistan.

Chronology

2010

9 July. ''Main Article'' Mohmand Agency attack.
2 November. The

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...

fighters blew up a school for girls in Mohmand Agency.
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.
9 November. The Taliban fighters blew up a three school in

.
14 November. At least 1 Pakistani soldier was killed after a landmine struck a Pakistan Army military vehicle within the

, of north-western Pakistan.
15 November. The Taliban fighters blew up a primary school in

. Since 2007, 67 schools were burned.
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

, of north-western Pakistan.
6 December. ''Main Article'' December 2010 Mohmand Agency bombings.
11 December. At least 4

Pakistani Taliban The Pakistani Taliban (), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (Urdu/ ps, , lit=Student Movement of Pakistan, TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani bor ...

insurgents were killed and 3 others injured, after insurgents were repelled in a checkpoint attack within the

, of north-western Pakistan.
14 December. At least 2 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 6 others injured, after

insurgents launched an overnight attack on a security post within the

, of north-western Pakistan.
23 December. At least 1 Pakistani citizen were killed and 3 others injured by a roadside bomb in Mohmand Agency.
24 December. At least 11 Pakistani soldiers and 24

insurgents were killed, after some 150 insurgents launched a series of militant attacks against five

Frontier Corps The Frontier Corps ( ur, , reporting name: FC), are a group of 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 Afghanist ...

checkpoints within the

, of north-western Pakistan.

2011

5 January. A least 39 Taliban insurgents were arrested by Pakistani army forces in

.
15 January. At least 3 Pakistani citizen were killed and 1 other injured by a bomb explosion in Mohmand Agency.
20 February. At least 100 Taliban insurgents were killed in the past month in the Mohmand Аgency.

2012

20 December. 28 students were killed when a Mohmand Model school bus was blown up by a suicide bomber at Shaki Khel village Mohmand agency, a tribal area in Pakistan. There were 40 students along with their 2 teachers and a bus driver in this unfortunate bus, the remaining injured were shifted to LRH hospital for treatment. The attack was owned by the TTP as they stated that the children were involved in Education against sharia, the Islamic code of life.

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