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Relationship with other militant groups subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Relationship_with_other_militant_groups-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Afghan_Taliban" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Afghan_Taliban"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Afghan Taliban </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Afghan_Taliban-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Cross-border_controversy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cross-border_controversy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1.1 Cross-border controversy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cross-border_controversy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Al-Qaeda" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Al-Qaeda"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2 Al-Qaeda </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Al-Qaeda-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ghazi_Abdul_Rashid_Shaheed_Brigade" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ghazi_Abdul_Rashid_Shaheed_Brigade"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4 Ghazi Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ghazi_Abdul_Rashid_Shaheed_Brigade-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5 Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Punjabi_Taliban" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Punjabi_Taliban"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.6 Punjabi Taliban </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Punjabi_Taliban-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_groups" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_groups"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.7 Other groups </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_groups-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Allegations_of_foreign_support/linkages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allegations_of_foreign_support/linkages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Allegations of foreign support/linkages </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allegations_of_foreign_support/linkages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Claimed_and_alleged_attacks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Claimed_and_alleged_attacks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Claimed and alleged attacks </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Claimed_and_alleged_attacks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Involvement in the Syrian Civil War </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" 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Talibanı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8" title="তেহরিকে তালেবান পাকিস্তান – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="তেহরিকে তালেবান পাকিস্তান" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahr%C3%ADk-e_T%C3%A1lib%C3%A1n-e_P%C3%A1kist%C3%A1n" title="Tahrík-e Tálibán-e Pákistán – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Tahrík-e Tálibán-e Pákistán" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehreek-e-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_de_los_Talibanes_Pakistan%C3%ADes" title="Movimiento de los Talibanes Pakistaníes – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Movimiento de los Talibanes Pakistaníes" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talibana_Movado_de_Pakistano" title="Talibana Movado de Pakistano – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Talibana Movado de Pakistano" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="طالبان پاکستان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="طالبان پاکستان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-e-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%ED%82%A4%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%84_%ED%83%88%EB%A0%88%EB%B0%98" title="파키스탄 탈레반 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="파키스탄 탈레반" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95-%E0%A4%8F-%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" title="तहरीक-ए-तालिबान पाकिस्तान – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="तहरीक-ए-तालिबान पाकिस्तान" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B9%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C_%E0%B2%8E_%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A8_(%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BF)" title="ತೆಹ್ರಿಕ್‌ ಎ ತಾಲಿಬಾನ್‌ ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ (ಟಿಟಿಪಿ) – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ತೆಹ್ರಿಕ್‌ ಎ ತಾಲಿಬಾನ್‌ ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ (ಟಿಟಿಪಿ)" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="طالبان باكستان – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="طالبان باكستان" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95" title="パキスタン・ターリバーン運動 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="パキスタン・ターリバーン運動" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehreek-e-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a 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For the Afghan Taliban, see <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>. For the Tajik Taliban, see <a href="/wiki/Jamaat_Ansarullah" title="Jamaat Ansarullah">Jamaat Ansarullah</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Pakistani Taliban (disambiguation)">Pakistani Taliban (disambiguation)</a>. 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'Awami Nastaliq Beta1', 'Nafees Nastaleeq', 'Nafees Nastaleeq v1.01', 'Pak Nastaleeq', 'PDMS_Jauhar', 'Alvi Lahori Nastaleeq'; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal;">تحریک طالبان پاکستان Pakistani Taliban Movement</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg/260px-Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg/390px-Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg/520px-Flag_of_Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg/260px-Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg/390px-Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg/520px-Variant_flag_of_the_Islamic_State.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Also known as</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Pakistani Taliban (پاکستانی طالبان)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Leaders</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsud" title="Baitullah Mehsud">Baitullah Mehsud</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a><a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a> (2007–09)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakimullah_Mehsud" title="Hakimullah Mehsud">Hakimullah Mehsud</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a><a href="#cite_note-Dawn_News-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-dt20090823-3">[3]</a> (2009–13)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fazlullah_(militant_leader)" title="Fazlullah (militant leader)">Fazal Hayat</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a><a href="#cite_note-GuardianOct14-4">[4]</a> (2013–18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noor_Wali_Mehsud" title="Noor Wali Mehsud">Noor Wali Mehsud</a> (since 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dates of operation</th><td class="infobox-data">December 2007 – present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a> (self-declared, publicly rejected by IEA)<a href="#cite_note-IEA_allegiance_Dawn-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-IEA_allegiance_Arab_News-6">[6]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Motives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fundamentalism" title="Fundamentalism">Fundamentalism</a><a href="#cite_note-DOPEL-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Maley2-14-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-oxfordislamicstudies.com-9">[9]</a> <a href="/wiki/Pashtunwali" title="Pashtunwali">Pashtunwali</a><a href="#cite_note-CF2R-10">[10]</a> <a href="/wiki/Deobandi" class="mw-redirect" title="Deobandi">Deobandi</a><a href="#cite_note-digitaljournal.com-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-pastandfuture-12">[12]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sectarianism" title="Sectarianism">Sectarianism</a><a href="#cite_note-MMP:_Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan-13">[13]</a> <a href="/wiki/Separatism" title="Separatism">Separatism</a><a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-siddiqa-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-eliasb-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-Anadolu_Agency-17">[17]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data">Eastern Afghanistan<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Deobandi_jihadism" title="Deobandi jihadism">Deobandi jihadism</a><a href="#cite_note-digitaljournal.com-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-pastandfuture-12">[12]</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">Islamic fundamentalism</a><a href="#cite_note-DOPEL-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Maley2-14-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-oxfordislamicstudies.com-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-19">[19]</a> <a href="/wiki/Pashtunwali" title="Pashtunwali">Pashtunwali</a><a href="#cite_note-CF2R-10">[10]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sectarianism" title="Sectarianism">Sectarianism</a><a href="#cite_note-MMP:_Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan-13">[13]</a> <a href="/wiki/Separatism" title="Separatism">Separatism</a><a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-siddiqa-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-eliasb-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-Anadolu_Agency-17">[17]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable attacks</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2008_Barcelona_terror_plot" title="2008 Barcelona terror plot">2008 Barcelona terror plot</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_Sikh_beheadings_by_the_Taliban" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Sikh beheadings by the Taliban">2010 Sikh beheadings by the Taliban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Swiss_tourists_in_Balochistan" title="Kidnapping of Swiss tourists in Balochistan">Kidnapping of Swiss tourists in Balochistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre" title="2014 Peshawar school massacre">2014 Peshawar school massacre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai" title="Malala Yousafzai">Attack on Malala Yousafzai</a>, <a href="/wiki/2016_Lahore_suicide_bombing" title="2016 Lahore suicide bombing">2016 Lahore suicide bombing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lahore_church_bombings" title="Lahore church bombings">Lahore church bombings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dasu_bus_attack" title="Dasu bus attack">Dasu bus attack</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Size</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li>25,000 in 2014<a href="#cite_note-BBC-25_April_2014-20">[20]</a></li> <li>3,000–5,000 in Afghanistan in 2019 (according to <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">U.S. Department of Defense</a>)<a href="#cite_note-inafghanistan-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></li> <li>6,000-6,500 Total (<a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> intelligence estimates)<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></li> <li>7,000–10,000 in 2022 (Pakistani government estimate)<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allies</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Afghan Taliban</a> (denied by the Afghan Taliban)<a href="#cite_note-alj1-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-abc1-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-IEA_allegiance_Dawn-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-IEA_allegiance_Arab_News-6">[6]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Tnsm-flag.svg/23px-Tnsm-flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Tnsm-flag.svg/35px-Tnsm-flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Tnsm-flag.svg/46px-Tnsm-flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="755" data-file-height="498" /> <a href="/wiki/Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi" title="Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi">Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi</a><a href="#cite_note-satp-27">[27]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" title="Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="358" data-file-height="236" /> <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi" title="Lashkar-e-Jhangvi">Lashkar-e-Jhangvi</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Flag_of_Sipah-e-Sahaba.jpg/23px-Flag_of_Sipah-e-Sahaba.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Flag_of_Sipah-e-Sahaba.jpg/35px-Flag_of_Sipah-e-Sahaba.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Flag_of_Sipah-e-Sahaba.jpg/46px-Flag_of_Sipah-e-Sahaba.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="400" /> <a href="/wiki/Sipah-e-Sahaba_Pakistan" title="Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan">Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Tehreek-e-Jihad_Pakistan" title="Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan">Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opponents</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_the_International_Security_Assistance_Force.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_International_Security_Assistance_Force.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_the_International_Security_Assistance_Force.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_International_Security_Assistance_Force.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_the_International_Security_Assistance_Force.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_International_Security_Assistance_Force.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /> <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">ISAF</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles and wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/War_on_Terror" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terror">Global War on Terrorism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>, <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups" title="List of designated terrorist groups">Designated as a terrorist group</a> by</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Bahrain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Bahrain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Bahrain.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain">Bahrain</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a><a href="#cite_note-cnt-31">[31]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-gulfnews-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-KUNA-37">[37]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a><a href="#cite_note-ukt-38">[38]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 2x" data-file-width="69" data-file-height="39" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a><a href="#cite_note-ust-39">[39]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Pakistani Taliban (<a href="/wiki/Urdu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a>: پاکستانی طالبان), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (<a href="/wiki/Urdu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a>: تحریکِ طالبان پاکستان, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> 'Pakistani Taliban Movement', TTP), is an <a href="/wiki/Umbrella_organization" title="Umbrella organization">umbrella organization</a> of various <a href="/wiki/Islamist" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamist">Islamist</a> armed militant groups operating along the <a href="/wiki/Durand_Line" title="Durand Line">Afghan–Pakistani border</a>. Formed in 2007 by <a href="/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsud" title="Baitullah Mehsud">Baitullah Mehsud</a>, its current leader is <a href="/wiki/Noor_Wali_Mehsud" title="Noor Wali Mehsud">Noor Wali Mehsud</a>, who has publicly pledged allegiance to the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Taliban" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Taliban">Afghan Taliban</a> (a.k.a. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan).<a href="#cite_note-voa1-42">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a> The Pakistani Taliban share a common ideology with the Afghan Taliban and have assisted them in the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">2001–2021 war</a>, but the two groups have separate operation and command structures.<a href="#cite_note-alj1-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-abc1-26">[26]</a> Most Taliban groups in Pakistan coalesce under the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-yusufzai20080922-43">[43]</a> Among the stated objectives of TTP is resistance against the Pakistani state.<a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a> The TTP's aim is to overthrow the government of Pakistan by waging a terrorist campaign against the Pakistan armed forces and the state.<a href="#cite_note-ref-45">[45]</a> The TTP depends on the <a href="/wiki/Tribal_belt_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal belt (Pakistan)">tribal belt</a> along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, from which it draws its recruits. The TTP receives ideological guidance from and maintains ties with <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ref-45">[45]</a> After the Pakistani military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, some of the TTP militants escaped from Pakistan to Afghanistan,<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> where some of them joined <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province" title="Islamic State – Khorasan Province">Islamic State – Khorasan Province</a>, while others remained part of the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> As of 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pakistani_Taliban&action=edit">[update]</a>, there are around 3,000 to 4,000 TTP militants in Afghanistan, according to a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">United States Department of Defense</a> report.<a href="#cite_note-inafghanistan-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-bajoriaj-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-mazzetti-49">[49]</a> Between July and November 2020, the <a href="/wiki/Amjad_Farooqi" title="Amjad Farooqi">Amjad Farouqi</a> group, one faction of the <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi" title="Lashkar-e-Jhangvi">Lashkar-e-Jhangvi</a>, the Musa Shaheed Karwan group, <a href="/wiki/Khalid_Mehsud" title="Khalid Mehsud">Mehsud</a> factions of the TTP, Mohmand Taliban, Bajaur Taliban, <a href="/wiki/Jamaat-ul-Ahrar" title="Jamaat-ul-Ahrar">Jamaat-ul-Ahrar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jamaat-ul-Ahrar" title="Jamaat-ul-Ahrar">Hizb-ul-Ahrar</a> merged with TTP. This reorganization made TTP more deadly and led to increased attacks.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> In 2020, after years of factionalism and infighting, the TTP under the leadership of Noor Wali Mehsud underwent reorganization and reunification. Mehsud has essentially steered the TTP in a new direction, sparing civilians and ordering assaults only on security and law enforcement personnel, in an attempt to rehabilitate the group's image and distance them from the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> militant group's extremism.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> After the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Taliban takeover of Afghanistan</a> in August 2021, Pakistan was unable to persuade the Afghan Taliban to crack down on the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-Jacinto-52">[52]</a> The Afghan Taliban instead mediated talks between Pakistan and the TTP, leading to the release of dozens of TTP prisoners in Pakistan and a temporary ceasefire between the Pakistani government and the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-WSJ-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt1-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-Khan-55">[55]</a> After the ceasefire expired on 10 December 2021, the TTP increased attacks on Pakistani security forces from sanctuaries inside Afghanistan. The <a href="/wiki/2022_Pakistani_airstrikes_in_Afghanistan" title="2022 Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan">Pakistani airstrikes</a> in Afghanistan's <a href="/wiki/Khost_Province" title="Khost Province">Khost</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kunar_Province" title="Kunar Province">Kunar</a> provinces on 16 April 2022 appeared to have been conducted in retaliation to the surge in terror attacks in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-56">[56]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roots_and_development">Roots and development</h3></div> The roots of the TTP as an organization began in 2002 when the Pakistani military conducted incursions into the tribal areas to originally combat foreign (<a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Afghanistan" title="Demographics of Afghanistan">Afghan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arab_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab people">Arab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asian</a>) militants fleeing from the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">war in Afghanistan</a> into the neighboring tribal areas of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Bajoria-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-abbasszaffar-58">[58]</a> A 2004 article by the BBC explains: <blockquote>The military offensive had been part of the overall war against al-Qaeda. ... Since the start of the operation, the [Pakistani] military authorities have firmly established that a large number of <a href="/wiki/Uzbeks" title="Uzbeks">Uzbek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechen</a> and Arab militants were in the area. ... It was in July 2002 that Pakistani troops, for the first time in 55 years, entered the Tirah Valley (<a href="/wiki/Orakzai_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Orakzai Agency">Orakzai Agency</a>) in Khyber tribal agency. Soon they were in <a href="/wiki/Shawal_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Shawal Valley">Shawal valley</a> of North Waziristan, and later in South Waziristan. ... This was made possible after long negotiations with various tribes, who reluctantly agreed to allow the military's presence on the assurance that it would bring in funds and development work. But once the military action started in South Waziristan a number of Waziri sub-tribes took it as an attempt to subjugate them. Attempts to persuade them into handing over the foreign militants failed, and with an apparently mishandling by the authorities, the security campaign against suspected al-Qaeda militants turned into an undeclared war between the Pakistani military and the rebel tribesmen.<a href="#cite_note-abbasszaffar-58">[58]</a></blockquote> Many of the TTP's leaders are veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan and have supported the fight against the <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>-led <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">International Security Assistance Force</a> by providing soldiers, training, and <a href="/wiki/Military_logistics" title="Military logistics">logistics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a> In 2004 various tribal groups, as explained above, that would later form the TTP, effectively established their authority in the <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">Federally Administered Tribal Areas</a> (FATA) by concurrently engaging in military attacks and negotiating with <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>. By this time, the militants had killed around 200 rival tribal elders in the region to consolidate control.<a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a> Several Pakistani analysts also cite the inception of U.S. missile strikes in the FATA as a catalyzing factor in the rise of tribal militancy in the area. More specifically they single out an <a href="/wiki/Chenagai_airstrike" title="Chenagai airstrike">October 2006 strike</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Madrasa" title="Madrasa">madrassah</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bajaur" class="mw-redirect" title="Bajaur">Bajaur</a> that was run by the <a href="/wiki/Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi" title="Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi">Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi</a> as a turning point.<a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a> In December 2007, the existence of the TTP was officially announced under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsud" title="Baitullah Mehsud">Baitullah Mehsud</a>.<a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a> It was formed in response to Pakistan military operation against <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> militants in <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">Federally Administered Tribal Areas</a> (FATA) in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-ref-45">[45]</a> On 25 August 2008, Pakistan banned the group, froze its bank accounts and assets, and barred it from media appearances. The government also announced that <a href="/wiki/Bounty_(reward)" title="Bounty (reward)">bounties</a> would be placed on prominent leaders of the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> In late December 2008 and early January 2009, <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mullah Omar</a> sent a delegation, led by former <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay detainee</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Ghulam_Rasoul" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul">Mullah Abdullah Zakir</a>, to persuade leading members of the TTP to put aside differences and aid the Afghan Taliban in combating the American presence in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a> <a href="/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsud" title="Baitullah Mehsud">Baitullah Mehsud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Gul_Bahadur" class="mw-redirect" title="Hafiz Gul Bahadur">Hafiz Gul Bahadur</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Maulavi_Nazir" class="mw-redirect" title="Maulavi Nazir">Maulavi Nazir</a> agreed in February and formed the Shura Ittehadul Mujahideen (SIM), also transliterated as Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen and translated into English as the Council of United Mujahedeen.<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-khanhm-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> In a written statement circulated in a one-page Urdu-language pamphlet, the three affirmed that they would put aside differences to fight American-led forces and reasserted their allegiance to Mullah Omar and <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>.<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-khanhm-61">[61]</a> However, the SIM did not last very long and collapsed shortly after its announcement.<a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-roggio20090816-63">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Threats_beyond_Pakistan_border">Threats beyond Pakistan border</h3></div> <style 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style="background:whitesmoke; border-bottom:#aaa 1px solid;"><a href="/wiki/Jihadism" title="Jihadism">Jihadism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:whitesmoke; border-top:#aaa 1px solid; font-size: 110%;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Practices and concepts</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">Jihad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mujahideen" title="Mujahideen">Mujahideen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Istishhad" title="Istishhad">Istishhad</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shahid" title="Shahid">Shahid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Widow_(Chechnya)" title="Black Widow (Chechnya)">Shahidka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martyrdom_video" title="Martyrdom video">Martyrdom video</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_terrorism" title="Islamic terrorism">Islamic terrorism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suicide_attack" title="Suicide attack">Suicide attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jihadist_flag" title="Jihadist flag">Jihadist flag</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:whitesmoke; border-top:#aaa 1px solid; font-size: 110%;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">Islamic fundamentalism</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qutbism" title="Qutbism">Qutbism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salafi_movement" title="Salafi movement">Salafism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_propagation_of_Salafism_and_Wahhabism" class="mw-redirect" title="International propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism">International propagation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salafi_jihadism" title="Salafi jihadism">Salafi jihadism</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:whitesmoke; border-top:#aaa 1px solid; font-size: 110%;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Notable jihadist organisations</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan">Pakistani Taliban</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine">Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Tawhid_wal-Jihad" title="Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad">Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">Al-Shabaab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansar_al-Islam_in_Kurdistan" title="Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan">Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahrar_al-Sham" title="Ahrar al-Sham">Ahrar al-Sham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq" title="Islamic State of Iraq">Islamic State of Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram" title="Boko Haram">Boko Haram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front" title="Al-Nusra Front">Al-Nusra Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayat_Tahrir_al-Sham" class="mw-redirect" title="Hayat Tahrir al-Sham">Hayat Tahrir al-Sham</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list 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href="#cite_note-mazzetti-49">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-ap20100101-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-reuters20100111-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-nytimes1-67">[67]</a> In July 2012, the TTP threatened to attack Myanmar in the wake of <a href="/wiki/2012_Rakhine_State_riots" title="2012 Rakhine State riots">sectarian violence</a> against <a href="/wiki/Rohingya" class="mw-redirect" title="Rohingya">Rohingya</a> Muslims in the <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_State" title="Rakhine State">Arakan</a> state. TTP spokesman Ehsanullah demanded the Pakistani government sever relations with Myanmar and close the Burmese embassy in Islamabad, and warned of attacks against Burmese interests if no action was taken. While the TTP has been conducting an insurgency in Pakistan, its ability to expand operations to other countries has been questioned. This was a rare occasion in which it warned of violence in another country.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leadership_crisis">Leadership crisis</h3></div> In August 2009, a missile strike from a suspected U.S. <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">drone</a> killed Baitullah Mehsud. The TTP soon held a <a href="/wiki/Shura" title="Shura">shura</a> to appoint his successor.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> Government sources reported that fighting broke out during the shura between <a href="/wiki/Hakimullah_Mehsud" title="Hakimullah Mehsud">Hakimullah Mehsud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wali-ur-Rehman" title="Wali-ur-Rehman">Wali-ur-Rehman</a>. While Pakistani news channels reported that Hakimullah had been killed in the shooting, Interior Minister <a href="/wiki/Rehman_Malik" title="Rehman Malik">Rehman Malik</a> could not confirm his death.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> On 18 August, Pakistani security officials announced the capture of <a href="/wiki/Maulvi_Omar" title="Maulvi Omar">Maulvi Omar</a>, chief spokesperson of the TTP. Omar, who had denied the death of Baitullah, retracted his previous statements and confirmed the leader's death in the missile strike. He also acknowledged turmoil among TTP leadership following the killing.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes20080818-72">[72]</a> After Omar's capture, Maulana <a href="/wiki/Faqir_Mohammed" title="Faqir Mohammed">Faqir Mohammed</a> announced to the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> that he would assume temporary leadership of the TTP and that <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Khan" title="Muslim Khan">Muslim Khan</a> would serve as the organization's primary spokesperson. He also maintained that Baitullah had not been killed, but rather was in bad health. Faqir further elaborated that decisions over leadership of the umbrella group would only be made in consultation and consensus with a variety of different TTP leaders. "The congregation of TTP leaders has 32 members and no important decision can be taken without their consultation," he told the BBC.<a href="#cite_note-bbc20090819-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> He reported to the AFP that both Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-ur-Rehman had approved his appointment as temporary leader of the militant group.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> Neither militant had publicly confirmed Faqir's statement, and analysts cited by <a href="/wiki/Dawn_News" title="Dawn News">Dawn News</a> believed the assumption of leadership actually indicated a power struggle.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> Two days later Faqir Mohammed retracted his claims of temporary leadership and said that Hakimullah Mehsud had been selected leader of the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-Dawn_News-2">[2]</a> Faqir declared that the 42-member shura had also decided that <a href="/wiki/Azam_Tariq_(Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan)" title="Azam Tariq (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan)">Azam Tariq</a> would serve as the TTP's primary spokesperson, rather than Muslim Khan.<a href="#cite_note-dt20090823-3">[3]</a> Under the leadership of Hakimullah, the TTP intensified its suicide campaign against the Pakistani state and against civilian (particularly <a href="/wiki/Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Qadiyani</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sufi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufi">Sufi</a>) targets.<a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Designation_as_a_terrorist_organization">Designation as a terrorist organization</h3></div> On 1 September 2010, the United States designated the TTP as a <a href="/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations">Foreign Terrorist Organization</a> (FTO) and identified Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali ur-Rehman as specially designated global terrorists. The designation of the TTP as an FTO makes it a crime to provide support or to do business with the group and also allows the U.S. to freeze its assets. The <a href="/wiki/US_State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="US State Department">US State Department</a> also issued a $5 million reward for information on the two individuals' locations.<a href="#cite_note-ust-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt20100901-77">[77]</a> In January 2011, the British government moved to classify the TTP as a banned terrorist organization under its <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000" title="Terrorism Act 2000">Terrorism Act 2000</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ukt-38">[38]</a> In July 2011, the Canadian government also added the TTP to its list of banned terrorist organizations.<a href="#cite_note-cnt-31">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internal_splits">Internal splits</h3></div> In February 2014, a group of TTP terrorists under the lead of Maulana Umar Qasmi broke away from the organization to form the <a href="/wiki/Ahrar-ul-Hind" title="Ahrar-ul-Hind">Ahrar-ul-Hind</a>, in protest against the TTP's negotiations with the Pakistan government.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> In May 2014 the Mehsud faction of the TTP defected from the main group to form a breakaway unit called Tehreek-e-Taliban South Waziristan led by Khalid Mehsud. The breakaway group was unhappy with the various activities of the TTP, saying in a statement "We consider kidnapping for ransom, extortion, damage to public facilities and bombings to be un-Islamic. TTP Mehsud group believes in stopping the oppressor from cruelty, and supporting the oppressed."<a href="#cite_note-MehsudDefection-79">[79]</a> The Mehsuds were widely seen as the most important group in the TTP and their loss was regarded as a major blow.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> In February 2017, the TTP announced that the Mehsud faction had rejoined the group, following the "defection of the rogue elements to the rival parties".<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> In August 2014, hardline elements of the TTP from four of the seven tribal districts formed a separate group called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan <a href="/wiki/Jamaat-ul-Ahrar" title="Jamaat-ul-Ahrar">Jamaat-ul-Ahrar</a>, led by the <a href="/wiki/Mohmand_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohmand Agency">Mohmand Agency</a> commander Omar Khalid Khorosani,<a href="#cite_note-nytimesAhrar-82">[82]</a> after disagreeing with Fazlullah's order to fight the Pakistani Army's <a href="/wiki/Operation_Zarb-e-Azb" title="Operation Zarb-e-Azb">Operation Zarb-e-Azb</a> offensive in the Tribal Areas.<a href="#cite_note-telegraph5Sep-83">[83]</a> However, in March 2015, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's spokesman announced that they were rejoining the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-reuters12March-84">[84]</a> Some <a href="/wiki/Uzbeks" title="Uzbeks">Uzbek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> fighters previously working with the TTP reportedly began leaving Pakistan to go to <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> to fight alongside the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a>. In the same month, Asmatullah Muawiya, the commander of the <a href="#Tehreek-e-Taliban_Punjab">Punjabi Taliban</a>, announced that his faction was ending their armed struggle against the Pakistani state.<a href="#cite_note-telegraph14Sep-85">[85]</a> In October 2014, the TTP's spokesman, <a href="/wiki/Shahidullah_Shahid" title="Shahidullah Shahid">Shahidullah Shahid</a>, and the group's commanders in <a href="/wiki/Orakzai_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Orakzai Agency">Orakzai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurram_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurram Valley">Kurram</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Khyber Agency">Khyber</a> tribal regions and <a href="/wiki/Peshawar_District" title="Peshawar District">Peshawar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hangu_District,_Pakistan" title="Hangu District, Pakistan">Hangu</a> Districts defected from the TTP and pledged <a href="/wiki/Bay%27ah" title="Bay'ah">allegiance</a> to <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State</a> (IS).<a href="#cite_note-isis-86">[86]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organizational_structure">Organizational structure</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Overview">Overview</h3></div> The TTP differs in structure to the Afghan Taliban in that it lacks a central command and is a much looser coalition of various militant groups, united by hostility towards the central government in Islamabad.<a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-siddiqa-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-eliasb-16">[16]</a> Several analysts describe the TTP's structure as a loose network of dispersed constituent groups that vary in size and in levels of coordination.<a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a> The various factions of the TTP tend to be limited to their local areas of influence and often lack the ability to expand their operations beyond that territory.<a href="#cite_note-nyt20100506-87">[87]</a> In its original form, the TTP had Baitullah Mehsud as its <a href="/wiki/Amir" class="mw-redirect" title="Amir">amir</a>. He was followed in the leadership hierarchy by <a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Gul_Bahadur" class="mw-redirect" title="Hafiz Gul Bahadur">Hafiz Gul Bahadur</a> as naib amir, or deputy. <a href="/wiki/Faqir_Mohammed" title="Faqir Mohammed">Faqir Mohammed</a> was the third most influential leader.<a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a> The group contained members from all of FATA's seven tribal agencies as well as several districts of the <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">North-West Frontier Province</a> (NWFP), including <a href="/wiki/Swat,_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Swat, Pakistan">Swat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bannu" title="Bannu">Bannu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tank_District" title="Tank District">Tank</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lakki_Marwat_District" title="Lakki Marwat District">Lakki Marwat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dera_Ismail_Khan_District" title="Dera Ismail Khan District">Dera Ismail Khan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kohistan_District_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kohistan District (Pakistan)">Kohistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buner_District" title="Buner District">Buner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Malakand_District" title="Malakand District">Malakand</a>.<a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a> Some 2008 estimates placed the total number of operatives at 30–35,000, although it is difficult to judge the reliability of such estimates.<a href="#cite_note-Bajoria-57">[57]</a> In the aftermath of Baitullah Mehsud's death, the organization experienced turmoil among its leading militants. By the end of August 2009, however, leading members in the TTP had confirmed Hakimullah Mehsud as its second amir. Government and some TTP sources told the media that Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in January 2010 by injuries sustained during a U.S. drone attack. Unconfirmed reports from <a href="/wiki/Orakzai_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Orakzai Agency">Orakzai Agency</a> stated, after the death of Hakimullah Mehsud, Malik Noor Jamal, alias Maulana Toofan, had assumed leadership of the TTP until the group determined how to proceed.<a href="#cite_note-CNNdead-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-int20100210-89">[89]</a> Reuters, citing a report from <a href="/wiki/The_Express_Tribune" title="The Express Tribune">The Express Tribune</a>, indicated in July 2011 that Hakimullah Mehsud's grip on the TTP leadership was weakening after the defection of Fazal Saeed Haqqani, the TTP leader in the <a href="/wiki/Kurram_District" title="Kurram District">Kurram</a> region, from the umbrella militant group. Haqqani cited disagreements over attacks on civilians as reason for the split. The paper quoted an associate of Mehsud's as saying that "it looks as though he is just a figurehead now... He can hardly communicate with his commanders in other parts of the tribal areas ... he is in total isolation. Only a few people within the TTP know where he is."<a href="#cite_note-reuters20110705-90">[90]</a> A December 2011 report published in The Express Tribune further described the network as "crumbling" with "funds dwindling and infighting intensifying." According to various TTP operatives, the difficulties stemmed from differences of opinion within TTP leadership on pursuing peace talks with Islamabad.<a href="#cite_note-et20111219-91">[91]</a> In December 2012 senior Pakistan military officials told Reuters that Hakimullah Mehsud had lost control of the group and that Wali-ur-Rehman was expected to be formally announced as the head of the TTP.<a href="#cite_note-reuters20121206-92">[92]</a> However a video released later in the month showed Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-ur-Rehman seated next to each other, with Mehsud calling reports of a split between the two as propaganda.<a href="#cite_note-reuters20121228-93">[93]</a> Mehsud and Rahman were later killed in separate airstrikes in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> In February 2020, the TTP reported the deaths of four TTP senior leaders within a one-week period.<a href="#cite_note-fourdeaths-96">[96]</a> All of these four leaders, among them former TTP deputy leader Sheikh Khalid Haqqani and Hakimullah Mehsud group leader Sheharyar Mehsud,<a href="#cite_note-hakigroupleader-97">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> were killed within a month of each other as well.<a href="#cite_note-fourdeaths-96">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_leaders">Current leaders</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noor_Wali_Mehsud" title="Noor Wali Mehsud">Noor Wali Mehsud</a> (alias Abu Mansoor Asim) – Emir (chief) of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-LWJ-17Aug2020-99">[99]</a></li> <li>Muzahim (alias Mufti Hazrat) – Naib emir (deputy chief) of TTP.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Gul_Bahadur" class="mw-redirect" title="Hafiz Gul Bahadur">Hafiz Gul Bahadur</a> – Powerful faction in <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a></li> <li>Aleem Khan Khushali – Faction active in North Waziristan.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a></li> <li>Muhammad Khurasani – Central spokesman of TTP.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Umar_Media" title="Umar Media">Umar Media</a></div> The TTP's "media arm" is "Umar Media".<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> Umar Media provides a "behind the scenes" look at Taliban attacks. Video clips are made in <a href="/wiki/Pashto_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashto language">Pashto</a> with <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> subtitles.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-indiakashmir-106">[106]</a> Umar Media also reportedly operated a <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> page which had been created in September 2012 and had a few "<a href="/wiki/Like_(Facebook)" class="mw-redirect" title="Like (Facebook)">likes</a>" and a "handful of messages written in English". According to then TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, the page was being "temporarily" used before the TTP would plan to launch its own website. SITE Intelligence Group described the Facebook page as a "recruitment center" looking for people to edit the TTP's quarterly magazine and videos.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-Facebook-page-108">[108]</a> The page was soon removed by Facebook and the account suspended.<a href="#cite_note-Facebook-page-108">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relationship_with_other_militant_groups">Relationship with other militant groups</h2></div> In a May 2010 interview, U.S. <a href="/wiki/Gen._David_Petraeus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gen. David Petraeus">Gen. David Petraeus</a> described the TTP's relationship with other militant groups as difficult to decipher: "There is clearly a symbiotic relationship between all of these different organizations: al-Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban, TNSM [Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi]. And it's very difficult to parse and to try to distinguish between them. They support each other, they coordinate with each other, sometimes they compete with each other, [and] sometimes they even fight each other. But at the end of the day, there is quite a relationship between them."<a href="#cite_note-bajoriaj-48">[48]</a> <a href="/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence">Director of National Intelligence</a> and United States Navy Admiral, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_C._Blair" title="Dennis C. Blair">Dennis C. Blair</a>, told U.S. senators that the Pakistani state and army meanwhile draw clear distinctions among different militant groups.<a href="#cite_note-Mazetti2009-109">[109]</a> While links exist between the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, the two groups are distinct enough for the Pakistani military to be able to view them very differently.<a href="#cite_note-waldman1-110">[110]</a> American officials said that the S Wing of the Pakistani ISI provided direct support to three major groups carrying out attacks in Afghanistan: the Afghan <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> based in Quetta, Pakistan, commanded by <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mullah Muhammad Omar</a>; the militant network run by <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a>; and a different group run by the guerrilla leader <a href="/wiki/Jalaluddin_Haqqani" title="Jalaluddin Haqqani">Jalaluddin Haqqani</a>, all considered a strategic asset by Pakistan in contrast to the TTP run by Hakimullah Mehsud, which has engaged the Pakistani army in combat.<a href="#cite_note-Mazetti2009-109">[109]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Afghan_Taliban">Afghan Taliban</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a></div> The Afghan <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> and the Pakistani Taliban share the same ideology and a dominant <a href="/wiki/Pashtuns" title="Pashtuns">Pashtun ethnicity</a>, but they are distinct movements, differing in their histories, structures and goals.<a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-siddiqa-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-ap20100101-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt20100901-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-alj1-25">[25]</a> The two groups frequently don't get along with each other.<a href="#cite_note-fpt-111">[111]</a> An Afghan Taliban spokesman told <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>: "We don't like to be involved with them, as we have rejected all affiliation with Pakistani Taliban fighters ... We have sympathy for them as Muslims, but beside that, there is nothing else between us."<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-dt20090422-112">[112]</a> Peshawar-based security analyst Brigadier (retd) Muhamaad Saad believes the Taliban are not a monolithic entity. "They can be divided into three broad categories: [Afghan] Kandahari Taliban, led by Mullah Omar; [Afghan] Paktia Taliban, led by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Sirajuddin Haqqani; and [Pakistani] Salfi Taliban [TTP]," he said. "It's the Salfi Taliban who pose a real threat to Pakistan. They may not be obeying the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar."<a href="#cite_note-et20110911-113">[113]</a> Some regional experts state that the common name "Taliban" may be more misleading than illuminating. Gilles Dorronsoro of the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Endowment_for_International_Peace" title="Carnegie Endowment for International Peace">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</a> believes that "[t]he fact that they have the same name causes all kinds of confusion."<a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a> As the Pakistani Army began offensives against the Pakistani Taliban, many unfamiliar with the region mistakenly thought that the assault was against the Afghan Taliban of Mullah Omar.<a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a> The TTP has almost exclusively targeted elements of the Pakistani state.<a href="#cite_note-bajoriaj-48">[48]</a> The Afghan Taliban however have historically relied on support from the Pakistani army in their campaign to control Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-George_Washington_University-114">[114]</a> Regular Pakistani army troops fought alongside the Afghan Taliban in the <a href="/wiki/Civil_war_in_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001)">War in Afghanistan (1996–2001)</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Webster_University_Press_Book-115">[115]</a> Major leaders of the Afghan Taliban including Mullah Omar, <a href="/wiki/Jalaluddin_Haqqani" title="Jalaluddin Haqqani">Jalaluddin Haqqani</a> and <a href="/wiki/Siraj_Haqqani" class="mw-redirect" title="Siraj Haqqani">Siraj Haqqani</a> are believed to have enjoyed safe haven in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes_2008-09-09-116">[116]</a> In 2006, Jalaluddin Haqqani was called a 'Pakistani asset' by a senior official of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes_2008-09-09-116">[116]</a> Pakistan regards the Haqqanis as an important force for protecting its interests in Afghanistan and therefore has been unwilling to move against them.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes_2008-09-09-116">[116]</a> In 2007, Pakistani militants loyal to <a href="/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsud" title="Baitullah Mehsud">Baitullah Mehsud</a> created the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and killed around 200 rival Pakistani leaders. They officially defined goals to establish their rule over Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">Federally Administered Tribal Areas</a> subsequently engaging the Pakistani army in heavy combat operations. Intelligence analysts believe that these TTP's attacks on the Pakistani government, police and army strained relations between the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-scott-14">[14]</a> Afghan Taliban leader <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mullah Omar</a> asked the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in late 2008 and early 2009 to stop attacks inside Pakistan. In February 2009, the three dominant Pakistani Taliban leaders agreed to put aside their differences to help counter a planned increase in American troops in Afghanistan and reaffirmed their allegiance to Mullah Omar (and to <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>).<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a> The agreement among the TTP leaders was short-lived, however, and instead of fighting alongside the Afghan Taliban the rival Pakistani factions soon engaged in combat with each other.<a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-roggio20090816-63">[63]</a> Many Afghan Taliban officials resent the TTP's violent campaign against Pakistan. Afghan Talibans and TTP have also conducted attacks against each other. On 10 October 2013, heavily armed Afghan Talibans attacked a TTP base in <a href="/wiki/Kunar_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kunar province">Kunar province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. The attack resulted in the death of three TTP commanders. However, TTP denied any losses.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> Again on 25 June 2016, Afghan Talibans and TTP clashed with each other in the Kunar province of Afghanistan. Afghan defense ministry claims that eight TTP militants and six Afghan Talibans were killed in the clash.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> Moreover, Some Sources also claim that TTP was behind the death of Nasiruddin Haqqani because TTP believed that Haqqani Network was behind the death of Hakimullah Mehsud as they disclosed whereabouts of <a href="/wiki/Hakimullah_Mehsud" title="Hakimullah Mehsud">Hakimullah Mehsud</a> to US military in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-fpt-111">[111]</a> Since 2007, the TTP had been responsible for some of the worst <a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Pakistan_since_2001" title="List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001">terrorist attacks in Pakistan</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre" title="2014 Peshawar school massacre">2014 Peshawar school massacre</a>, and had targeted civilians and security forces in wave after wave of <a href="/wiki/Suicide_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide bombings">suicide bombings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device" title="Improvised explosive device">improvised explosive device</a> (IED) blasts, <a href="/wiki/Targeted_killing" title="Targeted killing">targeted killings</a> and other forms of attacks. Following the TTP's <a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Peshawar school attack">Peshawar school massacre</a>, the leaders of the Afghan Taliban condemned the TTP's actions on the school, saying it was "Un-Islamic".<a href="#cite_note-IBT-120">[120]</a> However, despite the atrocities of the TTP, Pakistan was unable to persuade the Afghan Taliban to crack down on the TTP when the Taliban <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">seized power in Kabul</a> in August 2021.<a href="#cite_note-Jacinto-52">[52]</a> Instead, the Afghan Taliban mediated talks between Pakistan and the TTP that led to the release of dozens of TTP prisoners in Pakistan. In November 2021, the Afghan Taliban helped facilitate a one-month ceasefire between the government of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">prime minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> and the TTP. The ceasefire was not renewed when it expired, however, and the TTP emir, <a href="/wiki/Noor_Wali_Mehsud" title="Noor Wali Mehsud">Noor Wali Mehsud</a>, asked his fighters to resume their attacks in Pakistan from 10 December 2021.<a href="#cite_note-nyt1-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-Khan-55">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cross-border_controversy">Cross-border controversy</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes">Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes</a></div> In July 2011, after Pakistani missile attacks against Afghan provinces, Pakistani media reports alleged that senior Pakistani Taliban leaders were operating from Afghanistan to launch attacks against Pakistani border posts. According to the reports, <a href="/wiki/Qari_Zia-ur-Rahman" class="mw-redirect" title="Qari Zia-ur-Rahman">Qari Zia-ur-Rahman</a> hosted Faqir Muhammad in Kunar province while Sheikh Dost Muhammad, a local Afghan Taliban leader, hosted Maulana Fazlullah in <a href="/wiki/Nuristan_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuristan province">Nuristan province</a>. Faqir Muhammad, who claimed responsibility for a 4 July 2011 attack on a paramilitary checkpoint and for similar attacks in June 2011 on several border villages in Bajaur, stated during a radio broadcast, "Our fighters carried out these two attacks from Afghanistan, and we will launch more such attacks inside Afghanistan and in Pakistan." Afghan Taliban spokesman <a href="/wiki/Zabihullah_Mujahid" title="Zabihullah Mujahid">Zabihullah Mujahid</a> strongly rejected the reports and denied the possibility of Pakistani Taliban setting up bases in Afghan Taliban-controlled areas.<a href="#cite_note-expresstribune20110708-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-ap20110707-122">[122]</a> Tameem Nuristani, Governor of Afghanistan's Nuristan Province, told <a href="/wiki/The_Express_Tribune" title="The Express Tribune">The Express Tribune</a> that while the "Afghan Taliban have never carried out cross-border attacks in Pakistan," TTP militants may have "safe-havens" in Kunar and Nuristan in "areas where the government's writ does not exist".<a href="#cite_note-et20110911-113">[113]</a> In June 2012 a spokesman from the TTP's Malakand division revealed to The Express Tribune that TTP militants "regularly move across the porous border" to stage attacks against Pakistan but had only been in Afghanistan for a few months previously, contrary to Pakistani claims that the TTP had long used Afghan territory as a staging ground.<a href="#cite_note-et20120626-123">[123]</a> Both governments blame the other for harboring Taliban militants along the shared border.<a href="#cite_note-dawn20120702-124">[124]</a> In 2009 Pakistan <a href="/wiki/Operation_Rah-e-Nijat" title="Operation Rah-e-Nijat">launched offensives</a> to force the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from its territory in <a href="/wiki/South_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="South Waziristan">South Waziristan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Some analysts say the fighting pushed TTP militants to the Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, where they have regrouped to threaten Pakistani border regions.<a href="#cite_note-reuters1-126">[126]</a> The Pakistani military claims "scanty presence" of NATO and Afghan forces along the border has enabled militants to use these areas as safe havens and launch repeated attacks inside Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-reuters1-126">[126]</a> Afghan officials state that the withdrawal of US forces out of parts of Kunar province beginning in 2010 created a power vacuum that militants filled.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-127">[127]</a> They point to the fact that the Afghan state in some areas has little control due to its war against the Afghan Taliban which are supported by Pakistan according to many international and Afghan institutions, analysts and officials.<a href="#cite_note-waldman1-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-longwarjournal1-128">[128]</a> Pakistan vehemently denies this claim,<a href="#cite_note-Pakdenies-129">[129]</a> although some Afghan Taliban commanders stated that their training was indeed overseen by "ISI officers in a camp in Pakistan" and that they were being armed by Pakistan to fight the Afghan state and international troops in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-ibtimes1-130">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated6-131">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-IBT-120">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</h3></div> Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has close ties to <a href="/wiki/Al_Qaeda" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Qaeda">Al Qaeda</a>, sharing money and bomb experts and makers. <a href="/wiki/John_O._Brennan" class="mw-redirect" title="John O. Brennan">John Brennan</a>, President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, said: "It's a group that is closely allied with al-Qaeda. They train together, they plan together, they plot together. They are almost indistinguishable."<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> Ambassador-at-large <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Benjamin" title="Daniel Benjamin">Daniel Benjamin</a> stated, "The T.T.P. and Al Qaeda have a symbiotic relationship: T.T.P. draws ideological guidance from Al Qaeda, while Al Qaeda relies on the T.T.P. for safe haven in the Pashtun areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border... This mutual cooperation gives T.T.P. access to both Al Qaeda's global terrorist network and the operational experience of its members. Given the proximity of the two groups and the nature of their relationship, T.T.P. is a force multiplier for Al Qaeda."<a href="#cite_note-nyt20100901-77">[77]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ayesha_Siddiqa" title="Ayesha Siddiqa">Ayesha Siddiqa</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars" title="Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars">Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars</a> describes the TTP as "a franchise of al Qaeda" and attributes strong ties to al-Qaeda's acquisition of "a more local character over the years."<a href="#cite_note-siddiqa-15">[15]</a> Since the days of the Soviet era, some al-Qaeda operatives have established themselves in Pashtun areas and enmeshed themselves in the local culture.<a href="#cite_note-eliasb-16">[16]</a> In 2008 Baitullah Mehsud met with <a href="/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri" title="Ayman al-Zawahiri">Ayman al-Zawahiri</a> in South Waziristan. Prior to this meeting the Pakistani Taliban answered to the Afghan Taliban and pro-Pakistan militant commanders. At the time Pakistani authorities believed that Mehsud was in fact an al-Qaeda operative.<a href="#cite_note-nyt20100506-87">[87]</a> In February 2009 Baitullah Mehsud, Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Maulavi Nazir released a statement in which they reaffirmed their allegiance to Osama bin Laden.<a href="#cite_note-gall2009327-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-khanhm-61">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2023)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> According to United Nation report, ISIS core leadership sends funds to TTP in Afghanistan to "outsource" attacks due to its depleted manpower. The report also claims that ISIS would cease to exist in Afghanistan without these funds.<a href="#cite_note-nws-133">[133]</a> According to Borhan Osman, a senior analyst at International Crisis Group (ICG), the Islamic State (IS) fighters who started the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province">ISIS-K</a> branch of ISIS were TTP militants who had long settled in Afghanistan. He claims that many members of the TTP fled Pakistan and went to seek refuge in Afghanistan as a result of military operations conducted by Pakistan security forces. In Afghanistan, <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">National Directorate of Security</a> (NDS) tried to persuade them to fight against Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban. Initially, only few of them fought against Pakistan and Afghan Talibans. However, after that TTP members in Afghanistan changed their allegiance to ISIS-K. Initially, because of their good relations with Afghan armed forces, the locals in Afghanistan thought that they were pro-Afghan government forces based. They also claimed that they were there to fight Afghan Talibans and Pakistan. However, after series of events, ISIS-K also turned hostile towards to Afghan government and locals.<a href="#cite_note-AAN1-134">[134]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ghazi_Abdul_Rashid_Shaheed_Brigade">Ghazi Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade</h3></div> The Ghazi Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade, whose name is commonly shortened to Ghazi Brigade or <a href="/wiki/Ghazi_Force" title="Ghazi Force">Ghazi Force</a>, emerged as a jihadi organization after the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Lal_Masjid" title="Siege of Lal Masjid">Lal Masjid Operation</a> of 2007. In 2009 the Ghazi Brigade worked closely with the TTP during military operations in the Swat Valley, and the two groups jointly planned attacks on western targets in Islamabad.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</h3></div> The TTP and the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" title="Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</a> (IMU) have a long history of collaboration. At one point prior to his appointment as TTP chief, Baitullah Mehsud lived with <a href="/wiki/Tohir_Yo%27ldosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tohir Yo'ldosh">Tohir Yo'ldosh</a>, the IMU's former leader, who became an ideological inspiration and offered the services of his 2,500 fighters to Mehsud.<a href="#cite_note-AsiaTimes2009-08-07-137">[137]</a> In April 2009 Muslim Khan listed the IMU among the TTP's allies in an interview with AP.<a href="#cite_note-dt20090422-112">[112]</a> The IMU posted a video online in September 2010 that featured footage of Yo'ldosh's successor, Abu Usman Adil, meeting with Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-Ur-Rahman Mehsud.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> On 8 June 2014, the TTP accepted responsibility for conducting the <a href="/wiki/2014_Jinnah_International_Airport_attack" title="2014 Jinnah International Airport attack">Jinnah International Airport attack</a>. The militants who participated in the attack were Uzbeks belonging to the IMU, and the TTP described the attack as a joint operation between TTP and IMU.<a href="#cite_note-Uzbeks-139">[139]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Punjabi_Taliban">Punjabi Taliban</h3></div> The <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_Taliban" title="Punjabi Taliban">Punjabi Taliban</a> reportedly developed strong connections with the TTP, the <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi" title="Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi">Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi</a> and various other groups based in the <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">North West Frontier Province</a> (NWFP) and the <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">Federally Administered Tribal Areas</a> (FATA).<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-140">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-Majidyar-141">[141]</a> The TTP and the Punjabi Taliban both claimed the <a href="/wiki/2009_Lahore_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Lahore bombing">2009 Lahore bombing</a> shortly after the attack.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> On 24 August 2013, a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed that the head of the Punjabi Taliban faction, Asmatullah Muawiya, had been stripped of his leadership for welcoming the Pakistani government's peace talks offer. Muawiya responded by saying that the Taliban central Shura (council) did not have the capacity to remove him because the Punjabi Taliban is a separate group. He added that his group has its own decision-making body to decide leadership and other matters.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> After a <a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">US drone strike in Pakistan</a> near <a href="/wiki/Miranshah" title="Miranshah">Miranshah</a> which killed 2 Punjabi Taliban members and interrupted a period of time with no drone strikes in which the Pakistani government held talks with the TTP and Punjabi Taliban, Muawiya announced that the Punjabi Taliban was ending their activities within Pakistan to focus on American soldiers in Afghanistan on 13 September 2014.<a href="#cite_note-DPT-144">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-TPT-145">[145]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_groups">Other groups</h3></div> US officials admitted to The New York Times that they found it increasingly difficult to separate the operations of the various Pakistani militant groups active in the tribal areas of Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-mazzetti-49">[49]</a> Individuals and groups that are believed to have a supportive relationship with the TTP include: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami">Harkat-ul Jihad Islami</a> (HuJI), an al-Qaeda-linked terror group<a href="#cite_note-paksmostwanted-146">[146]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri_(militant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilyas Kashmiri (militant)">Ilyas Kashmiri</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> – killed</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qari_Saifullah_Akhtar" title="Qari Saifullah Akhtar">Qari Saifullah Akhtar</a><a href="#cite_note-paksmostwanted-146">[146]</a> – killed</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed" title="Jaish-e-Mohammed">Jaish-e-Mohammed</a><a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-dt20090422-112">[112]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi" title="Lashkar-e-Jhangvi">Lashkar-e-Jhangvi</a><a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-Economist-Punjabi-148">[148]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Taiba" title="Lashkar-e-Taiba">Lashkar-e-Taiba</a><a href="#cite_note-dt20090422-112">[112]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sipah-e-Sahaba_Pakistan" title="Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan">Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan</a><a href="#cite_note-fair201101-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Allegations_of_foreign_support/linkages">Allegations of foreign support/linkages</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-POV plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-POV" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrality</a> of this section is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute" title="Wikipedia:NPOV dispute">disputed</a>. 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(September 2021) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> The Pakistani military and civilian leadership have repeatedly alleged that the Indian intelligence agency <a href="/wiki/Research_and_Analysis_Wing" title="Research and Analysis Wing">RAW</a> has been funding and training TTP members using a network of Indian consulates in Afghanistan along the Pakistani border.<a href="#cite_note-hindustantimes-149">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-stanford-151">[151]</a> The allegations claim that when the TTP emerged, Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies were quick to seize the opportunity to infiltrate and utilize some of its elements, particularly <a href="/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsud" title="Baitullah Mehsud">Baitullah Mehsud</a>'s kin, against the Pakistani government and its armed forces. Pakistan claims that <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">NDS</a> (Afghanistan's intelligence agency) officials have openly admitted to their involvement with Tehreek-e-Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-Dawn-152">[152]</a> Afghanistan has always been safe 'sanctuary' for Tehreek-e-Taliban. <a href="/wiki/Fazlullah_(militant_leader)" title="Fazlullah (militant leader)">Mullah Fazlullah</a> and his followers have been living in Afghanistan since 2009. In 2012, United States military and intelligence officials admitted that <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Fazlullah" class="mw-redirect" title="Mullah Fazlullah">Mullah Fazlullah</a> and his followers are living in <a href="/wiki/Kunar_Province" title="Kunar Province">Kunar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nuristan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuristan">Nuristan</a> province of Afghanistan. However, the U.S. military claimed that they are not targeting Mullah Fazlullah because he is not their priority as he is not affiliated with Al-Qaeda or with the insurgents who target U.S. or Afghan interest. Moreover, the <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">ISAF</a> advisers believe that '<a href="/wiki/Afghan_Army" title="Afghan Army">Afghan Army</a> is allowing them to operate in Afghanistan'.<a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post1-153">[153]</a> Later on in 2017, Afghanistan Chief Executive <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah" title="Abdullah Abdullah">Abdullah Abdullah</a> admitted that Tehreek-e-Taliban have a foothold in Afghanistan. However, he claimed that Afghan Government is not supporting them.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> Head of National Directorate of security (NDS), <a href="/wiki/Asadullah_Khalid" title="Asadullah Khalid">Asadullah Khalid</a> posted a tweet on Twitter where he claimed that Tehreek-e-Taliban attack on Pakistan air force <a href="/wiki/2015_Camp_Badaber_attack" title="2015 Camp Badaber attack">Badaber Camp</a> was <a href="/wiki/Tit_for_tat" title="Tit for tat">tit for tat</a>. His claim highlights NDS support to Tehreek-e-Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-Daily_Pakistan-155">[155]</a> In 2013, United States military captured senior Tehreek-e-Taliban leader, Latif Mehsud, from an Afghan army and intelligence convoy. The Afghan convoy was guarding Latif Mehsud and taking him to National Directorate of Security (NDS) headquarters. They were intercepted by U.S. military in <a href="/wiki/Logar_Province" title="Logar Province">Logar Province</a> of Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-New_York_Times1-156">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> Senior Afghan analyst Borhan Osman claims that the Pakistan military offensive against the Tehrik-i-Taliban in <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">Federally Administered Tribal Areas</a> forced many members of the TTP to flee Pakistan and seek shelter in Afghanistan. Tehrik-i-Talibans were welcomed in Afghanistan and were treated as 'guests' by the Afghan Government and by the local people. Apart from Tehrik-i-Talibans, many other militants groups like <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Islam" title="Lashkar-e-Islam">Lashkar-e-Islam</a> and other factions of Tehrik-i-Talibans were allowed to live in Afghanistan. Tribal elders and locals from <a href="/wiki/Achin_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Achin district">Achin</a>, Nazin and Kot testify that the militants were allowed free movement in the province and treatment in Government run hospitals. When moving outside their hub, they would go unarmed. <a href="/wiki/National_Directorate_of_Security" title="National Directorate of Security">National Directorate of Security</a> (NDS) wanted them to fight against the Pakistani government and the Afghan Talibans. Initially, only few of them fought against Pakistan and Afghan Talibans. However, that changed after TTP members in Afghanistan changed their allegiance to ISIS-K. Once they pledged allegiance to ISIS-K, they claimed that they were there to fight Afghan Taliban and Pakistan. Because of their Anti-Afghan Taliban and Anti-Pakistan attitude, many locals believed that ISIS-K were a pro-government forces.<a href="#cite_note-AAN1-134">[134]</a> In December 2014, after the <a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre" title="2014 Peshawar school massacre">Peshawar school massacre</a> in which 132 children were killed, the Pakistani authorities again alleged that there was significant proof of Indian support of TTP to destabilize Pakistan and to counter Pakistan's Afghan policy.<a href="#cite_note-dunyanews1-158">[158]</a> The Pakistan Army's official spokesman, Major General <a href="/wiki/Asim_Bajwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Asim Bajwa">Asim Bajwa</a>, said in the aftermath of the attack that, "India is funding Taliban in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan," adding that "...a banned outfit cannot function on such a big scale unless foreign powers are funding it."<a href="#cite_note-dunyanews1-158">[158]</a> In addition to the Indian RAW intelligence agency, the Pakistanis claim that Afghan intelligence agencies are also involved in the support of TTP.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> Notably, major TTP leader Latif Mehsud was caught by U.S. troops in Afghanistan while he was in a convoy escorted by Afghan Intelligence. American forces captured the TTP leader and handed him over to Pakistani authorities. This angered the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, since Mehsud had been recruited for peace talks according to Afghan authorities.<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> In 2016, Latif Mehsud gave a public video confession during which he claimed that Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies were responsible for supporting the TTP and other militant groups against Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> The Sindh Home Ministry in November 2015, wrote a letter to the Rangers and Police claiming Taliban had funded terrorist activities in Karachi. According to the letter, RAW funded around Rs 20 million for terrorist activities in Karachi. "The funding has been provided to banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat," the letter claimed.<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Claimed_and_alleged_attacks">Claimed and alleged attacks</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Pakistan_since_2001" title="List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001">List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001</a></div> <ul><li>The Pakistani government implicated the network in the December 2007 <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Benazir_Bhutto" title="Assassination of Benazir Bhutto">assassination of Benazir Bhutto</a> although the group denies the charge. The U.S. <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> also confirmed its belief of TTP's involvement in January 2008.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariate-Mohammadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariate-Mohammadi">Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariate-Mohammadi</a> (TNSM) claimed responsibility for a 23 December 2007 suicide bombing targeting a military convoy on behalf of the TTP. The blast in the Mingora area of the Swat Valley killed five soldiers and six civilians.<a href="#cite_note-abbash-1">[1]</a></li> <li>TTP spokesman <a href="/wiki/Maulvi_Umar" class="mw-redirect" title="Maulvi Umar">Maulvi Umar</a> claimed responsibility of <a href="/wiki/2008_Dera_Ismail_Khan_suicide_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 Dera Ismail Khan suicide bombing">2008 Dera Ismail Khan suicide bombing</a>.</li> <li>TTP spokesman Maulvi Umar claimed that the group was responsible for <a href="/wiki/2008_Wah_bombing" title="2008 Wah bombing">21 August 2008 suicide bomb attack</a> on a military complex.</li> <li>TTP claimed responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/23_August_2008_Swat_Valley_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="23 August 2008 Swat Valley bombing">23 August 2008 Swat Valley bombing</a>.</li> <li>Someone using the name Abdur Rehman claimed that the TTP was behind a 6 November 2008 suicide bombing that targeted tribal elders, who had gathered in the <a href="/wiki/Bajaur" class="mw-redirect" title="Bajaur">Bajaur</a> tribal area to discuss efforts to coordinate with the government against the Pakistani Taliban. The blast took the lives of 16 and injured 31.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a></li> <li>On 13 November 2008, the <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Taliban_in_Pakistan_captures_convoy_bound_for_NATO_troops" class="extiw" title="n:Taliban in Pakistan captures convoy bound for NATO troops">TTP intercepted a military convoy</a> along the <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pass" title="Khyber Pass">Khyber Pass</a> bound for <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> troops in Afghanistan.</li> <li>In telephone interviews with news media Mehsud claimed responsibility for the 30 March 2009 <a href="/wiki/2009_Lahore_police_academy_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Lahore police academy attacks">attack on the police training academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbc2009331-164">[164]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> He told the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> that the attack was in retaliation for continued <a href="/wiki/Drone_attacks_on_Pakistan_by_the_United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Drone attacks on Pakistan by the United States of America">missile strikes</a> from American <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">drones</a> for which the Pakistani government shared responsibility. In the same interview Mehsud claimed two other attacks: a 25 March attack on an <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> police station and a 30 March suicide attack on a military convoy near <a href="/wiki/Bannu" title="Bannu">Bannu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbc2009331-164">[164]</a></li> <li>Mehsud claimed responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/2009_Binghamton_shooting" title="2009 Binghamton shooting">Binghamton shooting</a>, saying they were in retaliation for continued <a href="/wiki/Drone_attacks_on_Pakistan_by_the_United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Drone attacks on Pakistan by the United States of America">missile strikes</a> from American <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">drones</a>. The FBI denied this claim and stated this had nothing to do with Mehsud.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a></li> <li>Azam Tariq, spokesman of the TTP, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a security checkpoint along the Pakistan-Afghan border near <a href="/wiki/Torkham" title="Torkham">Torkham</a> on 27 August 2009. Tariq said by telephone that the attack was the first in retaliation for the death of Baitullah Mehsud. Although the exact number of casualties was unknown, a doctor at a nearby hospital told Dawn News that they had received 22 bodies and local people working at the blast site said they had retrieved 13 bodies.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a></li> <li>Azam Tariq claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed five at the UN's <a href="/wiki/World_Food_Programme" title="World Food Programme">World Food Programme</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> offices on 5 October 2009.<a href="#cite_note-ahmad20091006-168">[168]</a></li> <li>The TTP, through Azam Tariq, claimed responsibility for the October 2009 <a href="/wiki/2009_Pakistan_Army_General_Headquarters_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack">attack</a> on the army's headquarters at <a href="/wiki/Rawalpindi" title="Rawalpindi">Rawalpindi</a>. Tariq told the Associated Press that the attack was carried out by its "<a href="/wiki/Punjab_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab (Pakistan)">Punjabi</a> faction" although the military insisted the attack originated in South Waziristan.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a></li> <li>The militant group claimed responsibility for <a href="/wiki/2009_October_Lahore_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 October Lahore attacks">three separate coordinated attacks</a> in Lahore. 10 militants targeted buildings used by the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Investigation_Agency" title="Federal Investigation Agency">Federal Investigation Agency</a> (FIA), the <a href="/wiki/Manawan_Police_Training_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Manawan Police Training School">Manawan Police Training School</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Elite_Police_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite Police Academy">Elite Police Academy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a></li> <li>The Pakistani Taliban, as well as the Afghan Taliban, claimed responsibility for the 30 December 2009 <a href="/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack" title="Camp Chapman attack">attack on Camp Chapman</a>, a base of operations for the <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a>, inside <a href="/wiki/Khost_Province" title="Khost Province">Khost Province</a>, Afghanistan. The TTP released a video of Hakimullah Mehsud sitting next to the suicide bomber, <a href="/wiki/Humam_Khalil_Abu_Mulal_al-Balawi" class="mw-redirect" title="Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi">Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordanian</a> national who had been working with the CIA. In the video, al-Balawi states that the attack is in retaliation for the killing of Baitullah Mehsud. Many analysts doubted that the TTP acted alone.<a href="#cite_note-ap20100101-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-reuters20100111-66">[66]</a></li> <li>In a video posting on YouTube, Qari Hussain claimed that the TTP was behind the May 2010 <a href="/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bomb_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Times Square car bomb attempt">attempted car bomb</a> in New York City's <a href="/wiki/Times_Square" title="Times Square">Times Square</a>.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a></li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/May_2010_Lahore_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="May 2010 Lahore attacks">attack on two minority mosques</a> in Lahore during May 2010 was claimed by the Taliban.</li> <li>In July 2010, the TTP claimed responsibility for <a href="/wiki/2010_Mohmand_Agency_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Mohmand Agency attack">a suicide bombing</a> in the Mohmand Agency. Two blasts occurred outside a senior government official's office as people gathered to receive relief supplies. As many as 56 people died and at least 100 suffered injuries.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a></li> <li>On 4 October 2010 the TTP claimed responsibility for an attack near Islamabad on fuel tankers bound for NATO troops in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a></li> <li>In December 2010, the TTP claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing upon administrative buildings in the Mohmand district's Ghalalnai village. The blast killed 40–50 people. The purported head of the TTP in Mohmand, Omar Khalid, claimed responsibility in a telephone call with the AFP.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> The military's chief spokesman, <a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">Major General</a> <a href="/wiki/Athar_Abbas" title="Athar Abbas">Athar Abbas</a> indicated to Al Jazeera that the TTP attackers were based in neighboring Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a></li> <li>In December 2010, the TTP in South Waziristan kidnapped 23 tribesmen who had recently attended meetings with the Pakistani military.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for a 15 January 2011 attack on NATO fuel tankers likely bound for the border crossing town of <a href="/wiki/Chaman" title="Chaman">Chaman</a>. Azam Tariq told the AP, "We have assigned our fighters to go after NATO supply tankers wherever in Pakistan."<a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a></li> <li>On 31 January 2011 Azam Tariq, on behalf of the TTP, claimed responsibility of a suicide bombing in Peshawar that targeted police. The blast killed 5 people (3 police and 2 civilians) and injured 11.<a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a></li> <li>On 10 February 2011 the TTP claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at an army compound in <a href="/wiki/Mardan" title="Mardan">Mardan</a> that killed at least 31 people. Azam Tariq told the AFP that the attack was in response to repeated U.S. drone attacks and military incursions in the tribal areas. He also threatened further attacks against "those who protect the Americans".<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a><a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a></li> <li>The TTP released a video of the execution of a former ISI officer known as <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Imam" title="Colonel Imam">Colonel Imam</a>. The TTP said they had carried out the murder on 17 February 2011. His body was found near Mir Ali, North Waziristan.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a><a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a></li> <li>On 8 March 2011 a <a href="/wiki/2011_Faisalabad_bombing" title="2011 Faisalabad bombing">car bomb explosion</a> at a gas station in <a href="/wiki/Faisalabad" title="Faisalabad">Faisalabad</a> killed at least 32 and injured 125. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility and stated that the intended target was a nearby ISI office. He said that the attack was in retaliation for the death of a Taliban commander the previous year.<a href="#cite_note-dawn20110308-185">[185]</a><a href="#cite_note-reuters20110308-186">[186]</a></li> <li>On 9 March 2011 a suicide bomber attacked a funeral procession in Peshawar. The procession consisted of many anti-Taliban militiamen. Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the Pakistani Taliban had carried out the attack because the militiamen had allied themselves with the Pakistani government and, by extension, the United States.<a href="#cite_note-187">[187]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a></li> <li>On 4 April 2011 <a href="/wiki/2011_Dera_Ghazi_Khan_bombings" title="2011 Dera Ghazi Khan bombings">two suicide bombers attacked</a> a <a href="/wiki/Dargah" title="Dargah">Sufi shrine</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dera_Ghazi_Khan" title="Dera Ghazi Khan">Dera Ghazi Khan</a>, Pakistan. The bombings occurred while thousands of devotees were gathered for the annual <a href="/wiki/Urs" title="Urs">Urs</a> celebrations at the shrine. The attack left more than 50 people dead, as well as 120 wounded.<a href="#cite_note-ET-189">[189]</a> The Pakistani Taliban are ideologically opposed to <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a> and claimed responsibility soon after the attacks.<a href="#cite_note-190">[190]</a></li> <li>Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for two remotely detonated explosions that targeted two Pakistani Navy buses in Karachi on 26 April 2011.<a href="#cite_note-ap20110428-191">[191]</a></li> <li>Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility for a 28 April 2011 attack upon a Pakistani Navy bus in Karachi that killed 5.<a href="#cite_note-ap20110428-191">[191]</a></li> <li>On 13 May 2011 the TTP claimed responsibility for a <a href="/wiki/2011_Charsadda_bombing" title="2011 Charsadda bombing">dual suicide bomb attacks</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Constabulary" title="Frontier Constabulary">Frontier Constabulary</a> (FC) headquarters in Shabqadar, a town about 30 kilometers north of Peshawar, in <a href="/wiki/Charsadda_District,_Pakistan" title="Charsadda District, Pakistan">Charsadda District</a>. The attack killed more than 80 and injured at least 115 people. Most of the casualties were FC cadets. TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed that the attack was retribution for the killing of Osama bin Laden.<a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for a 22 May 2011 <a href="/wiki/PNS_Mehran_Operation" class="mw-redirect" title="PNS Mehran Operation">attack on a naval station</a> in Karachi.<a href="#cite_note-193">[193]</a></li> <li>A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden pickup truck into a Peshawar police building on 25 May 2011. The blast killed six and wounded 30. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.<a href="#cite_note-194">[194]</a></li> <li>On 13 September 2011, five militants with assault rifles and rockets attacked a school bus, killing the driver, four boys aged 10 to 15, and wounding two seven-year-old girls. TTP claimed responsibility.<a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a></li> <li>On 1 December 2011 the TTP claimed responsibility for the death of Hashim Zaman, an anti-TTP tribal leader, who was killed in <a href="/wiki/Hangu_District,_Pakistan" title="Hangu District, Pakistan">Hangu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-newsInt20111202-196">[196]</a><a href="#cite_note-lwj20111202-197">[197]</a></li> <li>TTP militants abducted 15 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers on 23 December 2011 from a fort in <a href="/wiki/Mullazai,_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Mullazai, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Mullazai</a>. TTP spokesperson Ihsanullah Ihsan announced on 5 January 2012 that the militant group had executed the 15 paramilitary soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-et20120115-198">[198]</a><a href="#cite_note-bbc20120105-199">[199]</a> The bodies were recovered close to a ravine and were mutilated according to locals.<a href="#cite_note-200">[200]</a> On 22 January 2012 the TTP released a video showing the execution of the 15 soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-201">[201]</a><a href="#cite_note-202">[202]</a></li> <li>Ahmed Marwat, a spokesman for a <a href="/wiki/Jandola" title="Jandola">Jandola</a> faction of the TTP, claimed to Reuters that <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Merah" title="Mohammed Merah">Mohammed Merah</a>, culprit of the <a href="/wiki/Toulouse_and_Montauban_shootings" title="Toulouse and Montauban shootings">Toulouse and Montauban shootings</a>, had received TTP training in North Waziristan. However, Marwat denied the TTP's involvement in the shootings, and the head of French intelligence indicated they had no evidence that Merah belonged to any militant Islamist group.<a href="#cite_note-reuters20120325-203">[203]</a> Pakistani officials allege that the TTP trained 85 French nationals between 2009 and 2012.<a href="#cite_note-204">[204]</a></li> <li>The TTP Khyber Agency faction claimed responsibility for a 23 March 2012 bombing that targeted a mosque, run by <a href="/wiki/Lashkar-e-Islam" title="Lashkar-e-Islam">Lashkar-e-Islam</a> (LeI), in Kolay village of <a href="/wiki/Tirah_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Tirah Valley">Tirah Valley</a>. The blast killed more than a dozen people and injured at least six others. A TTP spokesman told reporters that the attacks against the LeI would continue.<a href="#cite_note-et20120324-205">[205]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for a 5 April 2012 suicide bombing targeting a police vehicle in Karachi. The blast killed two and injured nine.<a href="#cite_note-extribune20120405-206">[206]</a><a href="#cite_note-ap20120405-207">[207]</a></li> <li>On 15 April 2012 the TTP claimed responsibility for a prison break in <a href="/wiki/Bannu" title="Bannu">Bannu</a>. 384 convicts escaped although many were later recaptured.<a href="#cite_note-extrib20120416-208">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-dawn20120416-209">[209]</a></li> <li>A suicide bomb on 4 May 2012 killed 24 and wounded at least 45 in a Bajaur market . The TTP claimed responsibility.<a href="#cite_note-dawn20120504-210">[210]</a></li> <li>The Malakand branch of the TTP claimed responsibility for 24 June 2012 attacks on Pakistani security checkpoints near the Afghan border. 13 Pakistani troops were reportedly killed while 14 militants died. The Pakistani military alleged that the militants had crossed over from Afghanistan, but the TTP did not confirm in claiming responsibility. The TTP also denied that it had taken casualties.<a href="#cite_note-wapo20120625-211">[211]</a><a href="#cite_note-et20120625-212">[212]</a></li> <li>On 25 June 2012 the TTP claimed responsibility for gunfire on Aaj News TV, a local station in Karachi. Two were injured. Ehsanullah Ehsan said that the TTP was upset that it was not receiving coverage equal to that of the Pakistani military and government.<a href="#cite_note-afp20120626-213">[213]</a><a href="#cite_note-dawn20120625-214">[214]</a></li> <li>On 9 July 2012 militants linked to the TTP attacked an army camp near <a href="/wiki/Gujrat_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Gujrat city">Gujrat city</a> that killed seven soldiers and a policeman. A pamphlet found at the scene indicated that attacks against government installations would continue as long as Pakistan allowed NATO to use its territory to <a href="/wiki/NATO_logistics_in_the_Afghan_War" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO logistics in the Afghan War">transport supplies</a> into Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-215">[215]</a><a href="#cite_note-et20120711-216">[216]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for a 16 August 2012 attack on the <a href="/wiki/Minhas_Airbase" class="mw-redirect" title="Minhas Airbase">Minhas Airbase</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kamra,_Pakistan" title="Kamra, Pakistan">Kamra</a>. The two-hour <a href="/wiki/Battle" title="Battle">firefight</a> resulted in the deaths of nine insurgents and two soldiers. Three other soldiers were wounded.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera20120816-217">[217]</a></li> <li>On 16 August 2012 militants removed 22 Shiites from buses and executed them in <a href="/wiki/Mansehra_District" title="Mansehra District">Mansehra District</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Darra_Adam_Khel" title="Darra Adam Khel">Darra Adam Khel</a> faction of the TTP claimed responsibility in a telephone interview with Reuters.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes20120816-218">[218]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for the 9 October 2012 school-bus shooting of <a href="/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai" title="Malala Yousafzai">Malala Yousafzai</a>, a young activist blogger, and two other schoolgirls.<a href="#cite_note-wapo20121009-219">[219]</a><a href="#cite_note-nation20121009-220">[220]</a> Supporting the attack, TTP spokesman <a href="/wiki/Ehsanullah_Ehsan_(Taliban_spokesman)" title="Ehsanullah Ehsan (Taliban spokesman)">Ehsanullah Ehsan</a> stated "whom so ever leads a campaign against Islam and Shariah is ordered to be killed by Shariah." He added that it is "not just allowed … but obligatory in Islam" to kill such a person involved "in leading a campaign against Shariah... ."<a href="#cite_note-221">[221]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/2014_Jinnah_International_Airport_attack" title="2014 Jinnah International Airport attack">2014 Jinnah International Airport attack</a>, which was carried out jointly with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The militants who participated in the attack were Uzbek foreigners.<a href="#cite_note-Uzbeks-139">[139]</a></li> <li>The TTP claimed responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Peshawar school attack">2014 Peshawar school attack</a> which claimed 141 lives, including 132 school children between eight and 18 years of age, with the remaining nine fatalities being staff members of the school.<a href="#cite_note-Euronews_2-222">[222]</a><a href="#cite_note-Independent-223">[223]</a></li> <li>A commander within the TTP claimed responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/Bacha_Khan_University_attack" title="Bacha Khan University attack">Bacha Khan University attack</a>, in which at least thirty students and teachers were killed by as yet unidentified gunmen. However, a spokesperson for the Pakistan Taliban denied the group's involvement.<a href="#cite_note-224">[224]</a></li> <li>On 20 January 2017. An IED placed in a vegetable crate, exploded at a vegetable market in <a href="/wiki/Parachinar" title="Parachinar">Parachinar</a>. The <a href="#Tehreek-e-Taliban_Punjab">Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan</a> claimed responsibility for the explosion. The blast killed at least 25 people and injured at least 87 others.<a href="#cite_note-225">[225]</a></li> <li>Tehrik-e Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on 2 February 2018 in which 11 soldiers, including a captain of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a> were killed when a terrorist blew himself up during a volleyball match in Swat valley.</li> <li>Tehrik-i-Taliban claimed responsibility on 14 February 2018 for an attack in which, their gunmen killed 2 <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Constabulary" title="Frontier Constabulary">Frontier Constabulary</a> soldiers in Quetta.<a href="#cite_note-226">[226]</a></li> <li>On 11 October 2018 a roadside bomb targeted a vehicle belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistani Army</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ladha_Subdivision" class="mw-redirect" title="Ladha Subdivision">Ladha Subdivision</a> of South Waziristan, resulted in the deaths of three soldiers and five wounded, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.<a href="#cite_note-227">[227]</a></li> <li>Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack on 27 July 2019, In which Pakistan army said that six of its soldiers were killed when extremists from across the Afghan border opened fire on a patrol in the tribal district of North <a href="/wiki/Waziristan" title="Waziristan">Waziristan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-228">[228]</a></li> <li>Militants of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for an attack on 18 August 2019 in which least four people were killed and six were wounded in a roadside bomb blast that targeted a vehicle carrying members of a peace committee helping the Pakistani government in its efforts against the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-229">[229]</a></li> <li>On 14 September 2019, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack an attack on army patrolling party which resulted in the death of one Pakistani soldier. The patrolling party was attacked in <a href="/wiki/Spinwam_Subdivision" class="mw-redirect" title="Spinwam Subdivision">Spinwam</a> area in <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-230">[230]</a></li> <li>Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for an <a href="/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device" title="Improvised explosive device">IED</a> blast in Quetta, on 15 November 2019 in which 3 Pakistani soldier were killed.</li> <li>Hizbul Ahrar, a splinter group from the TTP claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on 4 November 2019, that killed 4 Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan.<a href="#cite_note-231">[231]</a></li> <li>In the year 2020, TTP claimed responsibility for 79 attacks that killed 100 and injured at least 206. 80 Pakistan soldiers were also killed in these attacks.<a href="#cite_note-232">[232]</a></li> <li>On 14 January 2021, TTP militants killed 4 Pakistan Soldiers in North Waziristan district.<a href="#cite_note-Anadolu_Agency-17">[17]</a></li> <li>On 12 February 2021, TTP Gunmen ambushed an Army Check Post in <a href="/wiki/South_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="South Waziristan">South Waziristan</a>, the attack lead to deaths of 4 soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-233">[233]</a></li> <li>On 23 February 2021, four women aid workers were killed in Pakistan's North Waziristan. The attack was claimed by TTP.<a href="#cite_note-234">[234]</a></li> <li>On 8 March 2021, TTP militants killed a police officer in Rawalpindi.<a href="#cite_note-235">[235]</a></li> <li>On 21 April 2021, TTP claimed responsibility for a bomb explosion in the parking lot of the <a href="/wiki/2021_Serena_Hotel_Quetta_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Serena Hotel Quetta bombing">Serena Hotel</a> in Quetta, killing four people and wounding 12 others. News Reports suggested that the target was the <a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_China_to_Pakistan" title="List of ambassadors of China to Pakistan">Chinese ambassador</a>.<a href="#cite_note-236">[236]</a><a href="#cite_note-237">[237]</a></li> <li>On 5 May 2021, Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack while they were working on fencing the Pakistan-Afghan border in <a href="/wiki/Zhob" title="Zhob">Zhob</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a>. The attack was claimed by TTP.<a href="#cite_note-238">[238]</a></li> <li>On 10 May 2021, 3 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack, claimed by TTP.<a href="#cite_note-239">[239]</a></li> <li>On 22 May 2021, a Pakistani soldier was killed while working on fencing the Pakistan-Afghan border. Responsibility of attack was claimed by TTP.<a href="#cite_note-240">[240]</a></li> <li>On 3 June 2021, TTP carried out an attack in <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>, in which two <a href="/wiki/Capital_Territory_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital Territory Police">Islamabad Police</a> cops were killed.<a href="#cite_note-241">[241]</a></li> <li>On 13 July, Pakistani soldiers conducted a rescue operation in Kurram district to retrieve five telecommunications workers who were abducted by the terrorist. The five telecommunications workers were successfully rescued. Two Pakistani soldiers and three members of Tehrik-i-Taliban were killed in the operation.<a href="#cite_note-242">[242]</a></li> <li>On 18 July 2021, TTP claimed responsibility for Twin attacks in which 3 Pakistan soldiers were killed and 4 were injured.</li> <li>Between 18 July and 30 July 2021, 24 Pakistan soldiers were killed in attacks claimed by TTP.</li> <li>On 1 August 2021, 2 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 9 were wounded in attacks by TTP in South and <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-243">[243]</a></li> <li>On 8 August 2021, TTP carried out an attack on a military post in <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a>. 1 soldier were killed in that attack.<a href="#cite_note-244">[244]</a></li> <li>On 13 August 2021, 1 Pakistan soldier was killed in <a href="/wiki/South_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="South Waziristan">South Waziristan</a>, attack was claimed by TTP.<a href="#cite_note-245">[245]</a></li> <li>On 18 August 2021, A Pakistan Army soldier was killed during an exchange of fire with terrorists at a checkpost in the South Waziristan district.<a href="#cite_note-246">[246]</a></li> <li>On 5 September 2021, 4 FC soldiers were killed in <a href="/wiki/Quetta" title="Quetta">Quetta</a> when a TTP <a href="/wiki/Suicide_Bomber" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide Bomber">Suicide Bomber</a> struck their Check post.<a href="#cite_note-247">[247]</a></li> <li>On 6 February 2022, TTP claimed responsibility for an attack in which five Pakistani soldiers were killed in firing from Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-248">[248]</a></li> <li>On 23 February 2022, 4 policemen were killed in after grenade attack in Peshawar. TTP claimed responsibility for this attack.<a href="#cite_note-249">[249]</a></li> <li>On 23 March 2022, 4 Pakistani soldiers were killed by TTP militants in <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-250">[250]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War">Involvement in the Syrian Civil War</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_rebel_fighters_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War">Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War</a></div> TTP have limited aims and focused objectives.<a href="#cite_note-251">[251]</a> TTP have set up camps and sent hundreds of fighters to <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> to fight alongside rebels opposed to <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a> in an effort to strengthen ties with <a href="/wiki/Al_Qaeda" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Qaeda">al Qaeda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-reuters3-252">[252]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-253">[253]</a><a href="#cite_note-254">[254]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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R. Valentine, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110712231836/http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/PSRU_TehrikITalibanPakistan_IdeologyBeliefs.pdf">"Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan: Ideology and Beliefs"</a>, Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU), Briefing Number 49, 8 September 2009.</li> <li>S. R. Valentine, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DOIE6IN1JMMC&pg=PA233">"'We are the Soldiers of Islam': Tehriki Taliban Pakistan and the Ideology of Dissent"</a>, chapter 10. in U. Butt & N. Elahi (eds.), Pakistan's Quagmire: Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-nuclear Nation, Continuum, 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780826433008" title="Special:BookSources/9780826433008">9780826433008</a>.</li> <li>Ben Brumfield, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/17/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-profile/index.html">"Who are the Pakistani Taliban?"</a>, <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, 17 October 2012</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output 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title="Wali-ur-Rehman">Wali-ur-Rehman</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dadullah_(Pakistani_Taliban)" title="Dadullah (Pakistani Taliban)">Dadullah</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khalid_Mehsud" title="Khalid Mehsud">Khalid Mehsud</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khalid_Khorasani" title="Omar Khalid Khorasani">Omar Khalid Khorasani</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangal_Bagh" title="Mangal Bagh">Mangal Bagh</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qari_Hussain" title="Qari Hussain">Qari Hussain</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sher_Muhammad_Qusab" title="Sher Muhammad Qusab">Sher Muhammad Qusab</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adnan_Rashid" title="Adnan Rashid">Adnan Rashid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spokesmen</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maulvi_Omar" title="Maulvi Omar">Maulvi Omar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war"><abbr title="Prisoner of war">POW</abbr></a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ehsanullah_Ehsan_(Taliban_spokesman)" title="Ehsanullah Ehsan (Taliban spokesman)">Ehsanullah Ehsan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_Khan" title="Muslim Khan">Muslim Khan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war"><abbr title="Prisoner of war">POW</abbr></a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Alleged/claimed actions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Dargai_bombing" title="2006 Dargai bombing">2006 Dargai bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Benazir_Bhutto" title="Assassination of Benazir Bhutto">Assassination of Benazir Bhutto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tariq_Azizuddin" title="Tariq Azizuddin">Kidnapping of Tariq Azizuddin</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Taliban_in_Pakistan_captures_convoy_bound_for_NATO_troops" class="extiw" title="n:Taliban in Pakistan captures convoy bound for NATO troops">Capture of NATO convoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bajaur" title="Battle of Bajaur">Battle of Bajaur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Wah_bombing" title="2008 Wah bombing">2008 Wah bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faisal_Shahzad" title="Faisal Shahzad">Faisal Shahzad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sikh_beheadings_by_the_Taliban" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Sikh beheadings by the Taliban">2010 Sikh beheading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Faisalabad_bombing" title="2011 Faisalabad bombing">2011 Faisalabad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PNS_Mehran_attack" title="PNS Mehran attack">PNS Mehran attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai#Murder_attempt" title="Malala Yousafzai">Assassination attempt on Malala Yousufzai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Dera_Ismail_Khan_bombing" title="2012 Dera Ismail Khan bombing">2012 Dera Ismail Khan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Bacha_Khan_International_Airport_attack" title="2012 Bacha Khan International Airport attack">Bacha Khan Airport attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Dera_Ismail_Khan_prison_attack" title="2013 Dera Ismail Khan prison attack">Dera Ismail Khan prison attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaudhry_Aslam_Khan" title="Chaudhry Aslam Khan">Assassination of Chaudhry Aslam Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Bannu_bombing" title="2014 Bannu bombing">2014 Bannu bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Jinnah_International_Airport_attack" title="2014 Jinnah International Airport attack">Jinnah Airport attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre" title="2014 Peshawar school massacre">Peshawar school massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Chaman_suicide_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Chaman suicide bombing">Chaman suicide bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Bannu_counterterrorism_centre_attack_and_siege" title="2022 Bannu counterterrorism centre attack and siege">Bannu CTD centre attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarband_police_station_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarband police station attack">Sarband police station attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Peshawar_mosque_bombing" title="2023 Peshawar mosque bombing">2023 Peshawar mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Karachi_police_station_attack" title="2023 Karachi police station attack">Karachi police station attack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Umar_Media" title="Umar Media">Umar Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">Drone strikes in Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Taliban_fatality_reports_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Taliban fatality reports in Pakistan">List of Taliban fatality reports in Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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skirmishes">2024</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airlines_Flight_326" title="Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326">Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Afghan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1990 Afghan coup d'état attempt">1990 Afghan coup d'état attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Peshawar_school_bus_hijacking" title="1994 Peshawar school bus hijacking">1994 Peshawar school bus hijacking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_attack_on_the_Embassy_of_Pakistan_in_Kabul,_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan">1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_attack_on_the_Embassy_of_Pakistan_in_Kabul" title="2003 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul">2003 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_attack_on_Pakistan_ambassador_to_Iran" title="2010 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