Ladha (; ) or Lada is a town in

South Waziristan South Mahsud Waziristan District () was a Districts of Pakistan, district in the Dera Ismail Khan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, before splitting into the Lower South Waziristan District and the Upper South Waziristan D ...

, in the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

province (formerly in the

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, now merged with province). Just 10 km north of Ladha is the city of

Makeen Makeen () or Makin () is a city in the South Waziristan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located on the boundary of the North Waziristan district. On its west, it shares a border of 40 Km (25 mi) with Afghanistan's Barmal Distri ...

, while 10 km south of Ladha is the village of

Kaniguram Kānīgūram () is a town in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan. Kaniguram's population mainly consists of the Ormur or Burki tribes of Pashtuns. It is also the hometown of the sixteenth-century Pashtun revolutionary leader and warrior-poet ...

, the historical homeland of the 16th-century revolutionary leader Bayazid Pir Roshan.

History

British Raj

During the early part of

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, the

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was stationed there.

War on terror

In November 2009, the

Pakistani army The Pakistan Army (, ), commonly known as the Pak Army (), is the Land warfare, land service branch and the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the Commander-in-chief, supreme commander of the army. The ...

launched an attack on Ladha, which killed 30 militants and wounded eight soldiers. Another attack by the Pakistani army killed 37 militants and 5 soldiers. A mine blast on a road in Ladha killed two and injured nine. A drone attack by the

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targeting the base of a Taliban leader killed 27 people in Ladha. In November 2009, Ladha was one of the targets of

Operation Rah-e-Nijat The Operation Rah-e-Nijat ("Path of Salvation"; ) was a strategic offensive military operation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, unified command of Pakistan Armed Forces against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and their extremist al ...

by the Pakistan Army against

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, during which the Pakistani military entered and cleared a large part of the area.

References

Populated places in South Waziristan {{Pakistan-geo-stub

History

British Raj

War on terror

See also

References