waar (urdu: <nowiki>;</nowiki> , 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 -west pakistan. one incident included a terrorist attack on a police academy at lahore in 2009.