Second Battle of Swat

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Second Battle of Swat (Operation Rah-e-Rast)
Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Swat is the red colored region
Date 16 May – 15 July 2009 (1 month, 4 weeks and 1 day) Location Swat Valley, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province Result Pakistani victory[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Swat returned to government control Many Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commanders captured or killed
Belligerents
Pakistan Pakistan Army Pakistan Air Force	TTP TNSM Al-Qaeda Lashkar-e-Islam
Commanders and leaders
ACM Rao Suleman LTG Masood Aslam AM Hifazat Khan LTG Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad MGen. Haroon Aslam MG Sajjad Ghani BRIG Muhammad Habib Ur Rehman	Maulana Fazlullah Abu Saeed † Misbah ud-Din † Sultan Khan †[8] Shah Dauran  †[9] Maulana Shahid  † Qari Quraish † Naseeb Rehman † Muslim Khan (POW) Sher Muhammad Qusab (POW) †[10] Abu Faraj †[11] Nisar Ahmed †[12]
Units involved
Pakistan Army 19th Infantry Division Special Service Group Airborne Division  Pakistan Air Force No. 11 Squadron Arrows No. 25 Squadron Night Strike Eagles FCKP(N) Local tribesmen	TTP TNSM Al-Qaeda Lashkar-e-Islam
Strength
15,000–45,000 Regular Infantry, Frontier Corps and Airborne Forces	2,500 (approx.)
Casualties and losses
168 killed, 454 wounded[13]	2,088 killed[13][14][15]
2 million civilians displaced[16]

The Second Battle of Swat also known as Operation Rah-e-Rast, was Sub-Operation of Operation Black Thunderstorm,began in May 2009 and involved the Pakistan Army and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants in a fight for control of the Swat district of Pakistan. The first Battle of Swat had ended with a peace agreement, that the government had signed with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in February 2009.^[17]

However, by late April 2009 TTP violated majority of the terms of the agreement, resultantly, government troops and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan began to clash once again, and in April the government launched a military offensive code-named Operation Black Thunderstorm throughout the Northern parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then North-Western Frontier Province) including districts Swat, Buner, Dir, Shangla.

Swat then being a strongest hold of TTP required specific campaign and efforts by the Pakistani Armed Forces to free it from clutches of TTP once for all. This campaign which itself was part of larger military Operation Black Thunderstorm, came to be known as "Operation Rah-e-Rast", whereby Pakistan Armed Forces successfully flushed out Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from Swat. ^[18]