Second Battle of Swat

Second Battle of Swat (Operation Rah-e-Rast)
	Part of 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; LTG Masood Aslam; AM Hifazat Khan; LTG Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad ; MGen. Haroon Aslam; MG 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) †; Abu Faraj †; Nisar Ahmed †
Units involved
19th Infantry Division; Special Service Group Airborne Division; No. 11 Squadron Arrows; No. 25 Squadron Night Strike Eagles; Frontier Corps; Local tribesmen;	;
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, 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 government troops and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan began to clash once again, and in May the government launched a military offensive code-named Operation Black Thunderstorm throughout the Swat district and elsewhere to oppose the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

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