Orakzai and Kurram offensive
| Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
| The Orakzai Agency highlighted in yellow | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Pakistan | TTP TNSM | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Lt. Gen. Khalid Rabbani ACM Rao Suleman MG Tariq Khan | Hakimullah Mehsud † Waliur Rehman Mehsud † Taj Gul † Maulana Fazlullah Mangal Bagh † | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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 | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Frontier Corps and Regular Army: 45,000 | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| In Orakzai: 
 In Kurram: 
 | In Orakzai: 
 In Kurram: 
 333 insurgents captured | ||||||
| At least 200,000 civilians displaced3,100 civilians killed in Kurram by Taliban | |||||||
The Orakzai and Kurram offensive, also known as Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham (Pashto: خوښ با دی شم; lit. 'I will teach you a lesson') was a Pakistani military operation against the Tehrik-i-Taliban in the Orakzai and Kurram agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan that began on 23 March 2010. It was part of the War in North-West Pakistan.