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Siege of Hazarajat
Date	November 1996 - July 1997
Location	Hazarajat
Result	Hezbe Wahdat Victory
Belligerents
Taliban	Hezbe Wahdat
Commanders and leaders
Mohammad Omar Dadullah Akhund Jalaludin Haqqani	Karim Khalili Mohammad Mohaqiq Shafi Hazara
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
3000 Taliban killed and wounded 3600 Taliban POWs 250 Pakistanis killed 550 Pakistanis captured	Unknown

Siege Of Hazarajat 1997[edit]

The Siege of Hazarajat began in November 1996 and ended in May-July 1996 by anti Talban uprisings^[1] The uprisings were inspired by the revolt in Mazar-i-Sharif ^[1]In ten weeks of fighting between May and July, the Taliban suffered over 3,000 killed or wounded, and some 3,600 became POWs, while 250 Pakistanis had been killed and 550 captured^[1] The morale of the Taliban was extremely down after the lost Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif (1997–1998) and they were looking to replenish their losses by recruiting from the madrasas in Pakistan and Afghanistan^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rashid, Ahmad (2000). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. USA: Yale University Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780300083408.

[:0-1] Rashid, Ahmad (2000). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. USA: Yale University Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780300083408.

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