Second Battle of Swat

Second Battle of Swat (Operation Rah-e-Rast)
	Part of Operation Black Thunderstorm and the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
	; Swat is the red colored region
Date	16 May – 15 July 2009; (1 month, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Swat Valley, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province
Result	Pakistani victory Swat returned to government control; Many Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commanders captured or killed;
Belligerents
Pakistan Pakistan Army; Pakistan Air Force;	TTP TNSM; Al-Qaeda; Lashkar-e-Islam
Commanders and leaders
ACM Rao Suleman; Lt Gen Masood Aslam; AM Hifazat Khan; Lt Gen Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad; Maj Gen Haroon Aslam; Maj Gen Sajjad Ghani; Brig Muhammad Habib Ur Rehman	Maulana Fazlullah ; Abu Saeed †; Misbah ud-Din †; Sultan Khan †; Shah Dauran †; Maulana Shahid †; Qari Quraish †; Naseeb Rehman †; Muslim Khan (POW) ; Sher Muhammad Qusab (POW) (DOW); Abu Faraj †; Nisar Ahmed †
Units involved
Pakistan Army 19th Infantry Division; Special Services Group; Pakistan Air Force No. 11 Squadron Arrows; No. 25 Squadron Night Strike Eagles; FCKP(N) Local tribesmen	TTP TNSM; Al-Qaeda; Lashkar-e-Islam
Strength
15,000–45,000 Regular Infantry, Frontier Corps and Airborne Forces	2,500 (approx.)
Casualties and losses
168 killed, 454 wounded	2,088 killed
	2 million civilians displaced

The Second Battle of Swat, also known as Operation Rah-e-Rast, was a sub-operation of Operation Black Thunderstorm which began in May 2009 and involved the Pakistan Army and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants in a fight for control of the Swat district of Pakistan. The First Battle of Swat had ended with a peace agreement, that the government had signed with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in February 2009.

However, by late April 2009 TTP violated majority of the terms of the agreement, and as a result government troops and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan began to clash once again, and in April the government launched a military offensive code-named Operation Black Thunderstorm throughout the Northern parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then North-Western Frontier Province) including districts Swat, Buner, Dir, Shangla.

Swat then being a strongest hold of TTP required specific campaign and efforts by the Pakistani Armed Forces to free it from clutches of TTP once for all. This campaign which itself was part of larger military Operation Black Thunderstorm, came to be known as "Operation Rah-e-Rast", whereby Pakistan Armed Forces successfully flushed out Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from Swat.