'' Waar '' ( Urdu : ; , meaning " The Strike " ) is a 2013 Pakistani action-thriller film directed by Bilal Lashari and written and produced by Hassan Rana . The film features Shaan Shahid , Meesha Shafi , Ali Azmat , Shamoon Abbasi , Ayesha Khan , Suhaib Rana and Kamran Lashari . It is the sixth highest-grossing Pakistani film . It is a stylized depiction of events surrounding Pakistan 's efforts to conduct a war on terror on state-sponsored Islamic terror groups , which resulted in warfare among tribal units in North-West Pakistan . One incident included a terrorist attack on a Police Academy at Lahore in 2009
attack on a Police Academy
2009 Lahore police academy attacks
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