Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Armed conflict involving Pakistan and armed militant groups

Since 2004, an insurgency has been fought in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), Al-Qaeda, and their Central Asian allies such as the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkistan Movement, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Ittihad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, and elements of organised crime. Before being transformed into an insurgency in 2017, the conflict was a war. The armed conflict began in 2004 when tensions rooted in the Pakistan Army's search for Al-Qaeda fighters in its mountainous Waziristan region escalated into large-scale armed resistance.

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