Spillover of the Soviet–Afghan War in Pakistan

Spillover of the Soviet-Afghan War in Pakistan
	Part of the Soviet–Afghan War
	; Map of the 15th Spetsnaz Brigade's strike in Bajaur, Pakistan, c. January 1986
Date	1979–1989
Location	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Result	Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Belligerents
Soviet Union; Afghanistan; Al-Zulfikar	Pakistan; Afghan Mujahideen
Commanders and leaders
Leonid Brezhnev #; Yuri Andropov #; Alexander Rutskoy (POW); Babrak Karmal ; Mohammad Najibullah	Zia-ul-Haq #; Akhtar Abdur Rahman #; Jamal A. Khan; Mirza Aslam Beg ; Khalid Mahmud Arif ; Mohammad Shariff; Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Units involved
Afghan-Soviet forces: Forces involved: Soviet Armed Forces Soviet Army 40th Army 66th Motorized Rifle Brigade; 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment; ; ; Spetsnaz 15th Spetsnaz Brigade 154th Spetsnaz Battalion; 334th Spetsnaz Battalion; ; ; Soviet Air Forces; Soviet Airborne Forces 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment; ; KGB; ; Afghan Armed Forces Afghan Army 11th Infantry Division; 12th Infantry Division; 14th Infantry Division; 15th Infantry Division; 18th Infantry Division; 21st Mechanised Infantry Brigade; KhAD-e-Nezami; ; Afghan Commando Forces 37th Commando Brigade; 38th Commando Brigade ; 666th "Air Assault" Commando Regiment; 203rd Special Reconnaissance Battalion; ; Afghan Air Force; Sarandoy; ; ;	Pakistani forces: Forces involved: Pakistan Armed Forces Pakistan Army XI Corps; XII Corps; Frontier Force; Baloch Regiment; Northern Light Infantry; SSG; ; Pakistan Air Force 9th Squadron "Griffins"; 11th Squadron "Arrows"; 14th Squadron "Tail Choppers"; 15th Squadron "Cobras"; 17th Squadron "Tigers"; 23rd Squadron "Talons"; 26th Squadron "Black Spiders"; ; ; Civil Armed Forces Frontier Corps FC KPK (N); FC KPK (S); FC Baloch (N); FC Baloch (S); ; ; Pakistani Intelligence community Inter-Services Intelligence; Military Intelligence; ; ;
Casualties and losses
Unknown killed and wounded; According to Pakistan; DRA 2 Mil Mi-4 helicopters defected; 1 Mi-8 defected; 6 Mi-8 captured ; 2 Antonov An-26 shot down; Soviet Union; 3 Su-22 shot down; 1 Su-25 shot down;	Unknown Pakistan: 5,775 killed; 6,804 wounded; 1 F-16 fighter aircraft lost (lost to friendly fire, according to Pakistan) (shot down, according to Afghan authorities) ;
	Colonel Alexander Rutskoy (POW) 3 Su-22 and 1 Su-25 shot down 8 people who spied for the Soviet Union (POW)

The spillover of the Soviet–Afghan War in Pakistan refers to a series of airstrikes, ground skirmishes and other military confrontations which took place inside Pakistan as a result of the Soviet-Afghan war.