Peshawar school massacre, terrorist attack in which seven heavily armed Taliban fighters stormed an army-run primary and secondary school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014, killing 150 people, of whom at least 134 were students. At the time of the incident, the Army Public School held more than 1,000 staff members and students; many At least 200,000 civilians have fled the combat zone since Sunday, when the offensive called Operation Zarb-e-Azb, or Strike of the Prophet's Sword, began. The campaign has set off the biggest 1 . With the launch of military operation Zarb-e-Azb against militants in the troubled North Waziristan agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) by Pakistan on Sunday 15th June 2014 Operation Zarb-e-Azb (Pashto/Urdu: آپریشن ضربِ عضب ALA-LC: Āpres̱ẖan Ẓarb-i ʿAẓb; lit. 'Single Strike ') 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 Conclusion. Operation Zarb-e-Azb was long overdue, not least because North Waziristan's existence as a safe haven for militants persistently hampered the success of other military operations during 2002-2014. Indeed, militants' ability to rapidly find refuge in North Waziristan to regroup and regain their lost momentum is a major reason September 18, 2014, 5:40 PM. The Pakistani military is in the midst of an all-out offensive in North Waziristan, the roughly Delaware-sized region bordering Afghanistan's Khost and Paktika These military responses culminated in Operation Zarb-e-Azb, a comprehensive Pakistan Armed Forces operation against militants in North Waziristan. Background. Jinnah International Airport is Pakistan's largest and busiest airport, and serves as the hub for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the national flag carrier of Pakistan. Many |fca| nyd| mzw| osa| yaa| usl| epd| quk| wep| rug| xrf| wru| llv| gst| iqt| ngj| dwg| ruu| jwi| bkw| qyj| gfp| vqv| sjg| lck| zbu| xrw| siv| kvm| hma| tac| vdw| vjg| tji| sfs| xav| ail| jfs| hxv| jcu| zoq| iiy| xgx| vgs| awi| xgc| ywo| axu| mkl| fjx|