![]() ![]() Operation Toar Tander-I (Black Thunderstorm-I) began in Lower Dir as the Frontier Corps (FC) killed 26 Taliban, including key commanders Maulana Shahid and Qari Quraish. Therefore, the Pakistani government launched an operation in late April to retake all territory lost in the previous months. The government was highly criticized for making peace deals with the militants. This raised the alarm among western countries, particularly the United States, that a collapse of the country and a Taliban takeover was playing out. It was the closest that Taliban forces ever got to capturing the Pakistan capital, Islamabad. With the Taliban takeover the militants came within 60 miles (97 km) of the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. Soon after that the militants expanded their territory into other districts and by mid-April they took Buner, Lower Dir and Shangla. The ANP, the governing party of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sent the bill to President Asif Ali Zardari, who delayed signing it into law until "the writ of the government been established." On FebruMuslim Khan, spokesperson of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) publicly announced that his group would observe an indefinite ceasefire. Sufi Muhammad traveled to Swat to discuss peace with Fazlullah and his followers, who agreed to observe the ceasefire. The provincial government agreed to allow the implementation of Sharia in the region once violence had stopped. 4 Later revelations about the Swat dealĪ temporary ceasefire was called in the Malakand region on February 16, 2009.2.5 Alleged capture of Sufi Muhammad and other leaders.Many Pakistani Taliban militants and commanders killed or captured, remaining fled to Afghanistanģ0,000 - 45,000 Regular and Airborne Forcesġ,475 killed (23 foreign militants), 114 captured.Districts returned to government control, writ of the state established.Swat, Buner, Lower Dir, Shangla District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province ![]()
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