Operation Lyari

Lyari Operation
	Part of MQM violence (1994–2016), MQM militancy, Organised crime in Pakistan, Karachi gang wars and Operations in Karachi
Date	24 April–4 May 2012; 7 September 2013–20 August 2023
Location	Lyari, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Result	Sindh government victory; Sindh Police fail to infiltrate Lyari; Sindh Rangers lead the Operation; Many Gang leaders arrested/killed including Uzair Jan Baloch by Sindh Rangers; Lyari records an 80% decline in crime rate; Large scale gang wars mostly cease; Significant caches of weapons and ammunition seized; Low intensity violence continues;
Belligerents
Pakistan Civil Armed Forces Pakistan Rangers Sindh Rangers ATW; ; ; Federal Constabulary; ; Pakistan Police Sindh Police SSU; ; CTD; ; Pakistani Intelligence community NACTA; IB; FIA; SB; ; ;	Lyari Gangs: People's Aman Committee; Lyari Aman Committee (LAC) ; (Splinter group of PAC); Radical Balochis; Jhengu Group; Taju Group; Faisal Pathan Group; Wasiullah Lakho Group; Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan; Political Support: PPP (until 2013); MQM-L (until 2016);
Commanders and leaders
FIA Saud Ahmad Mirza; CID & Lyari Task Force (LTF) SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan †Sindh Police; IG Sindh Mushtaq Shah; AIG Shahid Hayat; DIG Javed Odho; DSP A.S Mirani SHO Sajjad Mangi; SHO Zulfiqar Lashari; SHO Aslam Rajput; Ghulam Sibtain †; Former Rehman Malik; Hassan Soomro †; Chakiwara SHO Frontier Corps; Major-General Ejaz Shahid Inter-Services Intelligence; Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar;	Uzair Jan Baloch Faction: Faisal Pathan; Jabbar Jhengu; Sana Baloch †; Sheraz Comrad †; Amin Jadgal Chakiwara Wala †; Amjad Lashari †; Salman Dada †; Mulla Nazeer †; Kamran Kami Baloch; Naeem Lahoti †; Mullah Sohail †; Ali Daad Zigri; Jameel Changs; Alias Wazira (POW); Noor Mohammad, Baba Ladla † Faction: Zahid Ladla; Shahid Rehman; Shakeel Commando; Sikander Sikku; Nasir Khan †; Gul Mohammad †; Basit alias Maut †; Moosa Baloch †; Yousuf Gojji †; Mairaj Baloch †; Younus Baloch †; Ustad Taju; Mullah Nisar; Umer Kutchi; Wasiullah Lakho; Shafi Pathan; Ismail Afhani; Shakir Ali alias Shakir Dada †;
Units involved
CID (Counter-Terrorist Force) Police Commandos; Lyari Task Force (LTF); Special Branch, Police (SBP); Anti-Extremist Cell (AEC);	Militants; Terrorists; Gangsters; Target Killers;
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

Operation Lyari was a Pakistani government crackdown against local gangs and other crime syndicates based in the local town of Lyari within Karachi in the 2010s, and part of the greater Karachi Operation.