Pakistania Offensive

Pakistania Offensive
Part of the Middle East Campaign of the Second Europan War
Lucian Troops dig in during Objective R30
Date 20 June - 1 August 1942 Location Pakistania-Afghania Border Result Strategic Imperial Victory Allied forces prevent Imperials from pushing further into Afghania at Objective R30
Belligerents
United Kingdom Nihhon-koku Gallia-Bruhl Zanarkand New Akiba Basel-Ebel Esthar and Balamb Dalmasca and Nabradia Holy Galbadian Empire Free Bethausia Kingdom of Gorkhali	Empire of Quenmin Archadia-Archedes Rumania Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance
Commanders and leaders
Archibald Sugiyama Tsukuyo Kushineda Alan MacDonald Friedrich O'Connelly Leslie Oliver Morshead Kurt Frediericks A.C.G. Lindholm Imari Kari Zaw Sein Arkar	Mạc Hiếu Quang Kiều Dũng Quang Phó Minh Duyên Vương Thị Lệ Trương Ngọc Thái Bình Victor Sazabio Giovanni Filiberto Guiseppe Gavallero Alexander Sundermann Jannick Liebehenschel Alfred Toht Kiesling Benno Vogel Strecker
Strength
110,000 troops 150 tanks 300 aircraft 100 guns	200,000 troops 400 tanks 500 aircraft 250 guns
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy

The Pakistania Offensive (20 June - 28 August 1942) was an Imperial offensive launched on 20 June 1942. Planned by Quenminese Marshal Mạc Hiếu Quang, the plan called for the bulk of Imperial forces in the Southern and Northern Pakistania to push Allied forces back, and potentially split Allied fronts in Afghania in two. The Imperial plan was unexpected with Imperial forces in the North pushing the Allies towards the Adibotara Crater, while the Imperial push in the south was aimed at Kantabash. In theory, Marshal Quang's plan was to wholly encircle Sugiyama's forces at Kabul that would see a 600,000 army strong force to be surrounded on all sides and pressured into surrender.

Opening actions saw Imperial forces in the southern sector push the Allies out of Balochistan while at Kashrul, the Allies were pushed further away from the capital region. Sugiyama was denied the ability to dig in and was subsequently forced back at Kabul, where he decided to dig in his central and what remained of the northern flank. By 1 August, the Imperials engaged with elements of the Bethausian forces at the Adibotara Crater, just a few miles away from the Nuristan Forest. Immediately, General Phó Minh Duyên commenced tobedar tactics that almost trapped the Bethausian forces into the crater but were saved thanks to a delaying action that allowed the Bethausian forces to escape. By 1 August, Imperial forces were now less than 70kms from Kabul, and less than 250kms from the eastern edge of the Elyagan Valley.

Although the Imperials had largely succeeded in pushing the Allies back, the constant raids on Imperial supply lines meant that Quang's forces would need to pause so that supplies and fuel can arrive. This opportunity gave Sugiyama the opportunity the establish defences near Route 30. Coincidentally, Imperial General Alexander Sundermann suggested to push the Allies further back in the south by means of commencing a northwestern thrust through the town of Kantabash along Route 30. Seeing that a thrust to the northwest from the south would hasten Sugiyama's encirclement, Marshal Quang agreed and by 12 August, the Imperials began the fourth phase of their offensive. But when the attack came, Imperial forces were greeted by stiff resistance from ZANAC forces. Although outnumbered, Zanarkian General Leslie Oliver Morshead succeeded in blunting Quang's thrust, saving Sugiyama from encirclement. This caused Quang to abandon his plan of dagger-thrusting to the Elyagan Valley and instead commence an encirclement of Sugiyama's force near Kabul, with General Kiều Dũng Quang taking Mazahr-Sharif to the north before swinging south towards the capital.

The Pakistania Offensive had denied Sugiyama of the ability to wage war in the Pakistania Lowlands, forcing him plan out his offensive towards the Nepali Mountains. The offensive in total had left the Allies initially in disarray but Sugiyama regained the initiative, ordering his forces to absorb the Imperial blows towards the Afghanian capital in order to wage a war of attrition, for which the Imperial commanders were not ready. By the time the offensive had ended, the Battle of Mazahr-Sharif took place afterwards in order to secure Sugiyama's encirclement, by which at that time, the Taoyuanese forces led by General Song Li-jen waged an offensive maneuver to prevent the encirclement from taking place long enough for Generals Regnitz and Testarossa's 2nd ERUIF to arrive and prevent Sugiyama's encirclement at Kabul.