Orakzai and Kurram offensive

Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham
	Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
	; The Orakzai Agency highlighted in yellow
Date	Battle phase:; (in Kurram) September 2009 – June 2010; (in Orakzai) March 2010 – June 2010 Insurgency phase: June 2010 – January 2011
Location	Kurram Agency and Orakzai Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Result	Pakistani victory
Belligerents
Pakistan	TTP; TNSM
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani; Lt. Gen. Khalid Rabbani; ACM Rao Suleman; MG Tariq Khan	Hakimullah Mehsud †; Waliur Rehman Mehsud †; Taj Gul †; Maulana Fazlullah; Mangal Bagh †
Units involved
Civil Armed Forces FCKP(N); Pakistan Army 9th Infantry Division; 315th Paratrooper Brigade; 14th Regular Army Regiment; Pakistan Air Force No. 25 Squadron; No. 15 Squadron;	Unknown
Strength
Frontier Corps and Regular Army: 45,000	Unknown
Casualties and losses
In Orakzai: 70 killed; 213 wounded; ; In Kurram: 18 killed;	In Orakzai: 2,182–2,552 killed; ; In Kurram: 250+ killed; 333 insurgents captured
	At least 200,000 civilians displaced 3,100 civilians killed in Kurram by Taliban

The Orakzai and Kurram offensive, also known as Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham (Pashto: خوښ با دی شم; lit. 'I will teach you a lesson') was a Pakistani military operation against the Tehrik-i-Taliban in the Orakzai and Kurram agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan that began on 23 March 2010. It was part of the War in North-West Pakistan.