 This operation, planned and launched under General Naseem Rana, was well planned, more organized and comprehensively studied by Pakistan Armed Forces.Despite the large series of organized attacks operations led by the General Rana of Pakistan Army and their Taliban allies, they were not able to subdue the Panjshir.Ahmad Shah Massoud, who had defeated the Soviet Union's 40th Army in his hometown before, successfully defended the Panjshir Valley, and diverted further assaults led by the "13th Regular Army" and the "50th Airborne Division" of Pakistan.