Operation Ghazi

Operation Ghazi
	Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; and the war on terror
Date	13 February 2017 – 30 September 2017
Location	Throughout Pakistan
Result	Decisive Pakistani Victory
Belligerents
Pakistani Taliban; Lashkar-e-Jhangvi; Jamaat-ul-Ahrar;	Islamic Republic of Pakistan; United States
Commanders and leaders
Mullah Fazlullah; Omar Khalid Khorasani;	Mamnoon Hussain; Nawaz Sharif; Zubair Mahmood Hayat; Qamar Javed Bajwa; Naveed Mukhtar; Sohail Aman; Muhammad Zakaullah;
Units involved
Pakistani Taliban; Jamaat-ul-Ahrar; Lashkar-e-Jhangvi;	Pakistan Armed Forces Pakistan Army; Pakistan Air Force; Pakistan Navy; ; Civil Armed Forces Pakistan Rangers; Pakistan Police; ; United States CIA drone strikes; ;
Casualties and losses
100+ militants killed	16 police officers killed,18+ injured

Operation Ghazi was a joint military offensive by the Pakistani Taliban and allied militant groups including Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

The offensive began with a suicide bombing at the Mall in Lahore in which 12 civilians and six police officers were killed.