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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan("Taliban Movement of Pakistan"), alternatively referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, is an umbrella organization of various Islamist militant groups based in the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Pakistan. Most, but not all, Pakistani Taliban groups coalesce under the TTP. In December 2007 about 13 groups united under the leadership of Baitullah Mehsud to form the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. It is led by Maulana Fazlullah. Among the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's stated objectives are resistance against the Pakistani state, enforcement of their interpretation of sharia and a plan to unite against NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.


The TTP is not directly affiliated with the Afghan Taliban movement led by Mullah Omar, with both groups differing greatly in their histories, strategic goals and interests although they are both predominantly Pashtun. The Afghan Taliban, with the alleged support of Pakistani Taliban, operate against international coalition and Afghan security forces in Afghanistan but are strictly opposed to targeting the Pakistani state. The TTP in contrast has almost exclusively targeted elements of the Pakistani state although it took credit for the 2009 Camp Chapman attack and the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt.

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KARACHI: Some called it 'Hell's Door Knocker'. Others dubbed it Pakistan's 'Wild West'. South Waziristan Agency (SWA) earned these monikers for its rugged, inhospitable terrain and its battle-hardened tribesmen. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a potpourri of terrorist groups, virtually ruled SWA until ...
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), better known simply as the Pakistani Taliban, confirmed on Monday that the deputy head of the group had been ... US missile strikes that landed on the Taliban camp in Afghanistan's Paktika Province last week are believed to have eliminated Taliban leader Khalid ...

Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain signed an ordinance aimed at reigning in individuals and organisations like the LeT, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, ... The UNSC sanctions list includes Al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), ...
The deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in a US drone strike, the militant group said in a statement Monday, as Washington continues to intensify attacks along the Afghan border region. Khalid Mehsood, deputy leader of the umbrella Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), died after the ...
A spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan, also known as Pakistani Taleban, who are fighting to bring down the Pakistani state, told Reuters the drone strike was in the North Waziristan region, on the Pakistani side of the border. “We confirm that deputy head of the TTP Khalid Mehsud died in a drone ...
Islamabad: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain has signed an ordinance aimed at reigning in individuals and organisations like the Let, Al-Qaeda and Taliban, which have been banned by the UN Security Council, a media report said on Monday. The ordinance amends a section of the Anti-Terrorism ...

The Diplomat report by Daud Khattak states that banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) received a serious blow on Friday when the group's second-in-command Khan Said, alias Sajna, was reportedly killed in a suspected drone strike in Afghanistan's southeastern Paktika province on February 9.
Over the past several years, the Pakistani authorities have accused the Afghan government of harboring the anti-Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban on its soil, exactly the way the Afghan authorities have been accusing their Pakistani neighbor of providing safe havens to the Afghan Taliban and their affiliates, the ...
The deputy chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khan Saeed Mehsud alias Khalid Sajna, was killed in the Thursday night drone strike along with three others, the Express Tribune reported. Sajna was also heading the Mehsud faction of the Taliban in Pakistan's northwestern Waziristan Agency.
The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, in a statement sent to the media. “God willing Tehreek-e-Taliban has started the process of revenge attacks,” Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani said in the statement. “Wait for more (attacks) to follow.” Violence ...
In a statement, the outlawed militants groups Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi strongly condemned the attack and expressed his grief over the losses of security personnel. "Coward enemy terrorists are no match for our valiant sons ...
Khan is the leader of Pakistan's second-largest party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, and hopes to distance Pakistan from the western Alliance if he becomes prime minister. The election was triggered by the ousting of Nawaz Sharif, who was disqualified by the supreme court amid claims of corruption.
Attacks have decreased sharply in the picturesque Swat Valley but can cause alarm in a region where Pakistani Taliban insurgents took partial control in 2007, before being ousted ... The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, in a statement sent to the media.
Afghanistan has long accused Pakistan of aiding the Taliban by giving shelter and aid to leaders of the Taliban insurgency, a charge denied by Pakistan, which points to the thousands of its own citizens killed by militants of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, which Islamabad says has hideouts in Afghanistan.
According to former SSP Malir, Qari Sabir and Maulvi Ishaq belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Nazar Jan was an activist of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Rao Anwar further informed that Maulvi Ishaq was involved in attacks on PSN Mehran in 2011 and Jinnah International Airport, Karachi ...
A detailed investigative report published in the English daily Dawn last year noted 41 of the 64 banned terror organizations, such as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Sipah-i-Sahaba and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, operate on social media openly. Hundreds of their personal and group pages ...
In the year 2008, then Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Maulvi Umar had ordered the men of the Bajaur tribal area to grow beards within two months 'or face the consequences'. A similar directive was made in Kharan district of Balochistan in 2017. This is no trivial matter. This is a concerted ...

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said that 27 individuals suspected of belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghan (TTA) and Haqqani Network were handed over to Afghanistan in November 2017. “Pakistan continues to push any suspected Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Network ...
... administrations where many of us were trying very hard to, frankly, to help our Pakistani partners, as they were combating the TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan), dealing with some of the other extremists inside their country that many of us believe represent the most significant existential threat to Pakistan.
Anwar had maintained that Mehsud was a militant belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan group, without providing evidence to support the claim. He went into hiding when an investigation found Mehsud to be innocent and said the shootout was staged. Sanaullah Abbasi, a senior police officer, earlier ...
The Pakistani army fought costly campaigns to expel the Taliban from the Swat Valley and Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA). Known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban, or TTP, the insurgents had close ties to the Taliban in nearby Afghanistan and posed an increasing internal threat before the army swept ...
Anwar had maintained that Mehsud was a militant belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan group, without providing evidence to support the claim. He went into hiding when an investigation found Mehsud to be innocent and said the shootout was staged. Sanaullah Abbasi, a senior police officer, earlier ...
The Pakistani army fought costly campaigns to expel the Taliban from the Swat Valley and Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA). Known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban, or TTP, the insurgents had close ties to the Taliban in nearby Afghanistan and posed an increasing internal threat before the army swept ...
This last part is particularly interesting given previous reports concerning the relocation of Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan) operatives to Syria in 2013. It is possible, if not likely, that Hamidi shepherded the Pakistani Taliban jihadists to Turkey so they could enter Syria, although this not outright ...
DERA GHAZI KHAN – At least two Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terrorists were killed in Pakistan Rangers Punjab operation near DIG on Sunday. According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement, the militants were involved in kidnapping and killing of security forces personnel.
Two chiefs of Pakistani Taliban militant group, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), hailed from the Mehsuds. Baitullah ... The Pakistani Taliban faction has also claimed numerous terrorist attacks in the country, which have left thousands of civilians and military personnel dead. Security ...
Polio teams have been the target of militants after the Taliban spread rumours that the vaccination drives were a front for espionage or a conspiracy to sterilise Muslims. The last major attack targeting a polio vaccination team in Quetta took place two years ago in January 2016 in the Satellite Town area.
The Taliban released a book on Sunday called 'Inqilab Mehsood South Waziristan — From British Raj to American Imperialism'. The book claims that Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) was involved in the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The book is written by Taliban leader Abu ...
The report said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, and its splinter factions were “still the most potent threat” and were behind 58 percent of the attacks. Nationalist insurgents active in southwestern Baluchistan province and sectarian groups are ...
U.S. Central Command head Gen Joseph Votel spoke with Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Bajwa. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan still the most potent threat. Footprints of Daesh (ISIS) increasing, killed 153 in 6 deadly attacks. Pakistan Security Report 2017, released by Pak Institute for Peace ...
Pakistani media reports suggest Misbah Mehsud and his followers were seen as pro-government militants after they splintered from the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2008. The group was one of several small Taliban splinter groups operating in Dera Ismail Khan and neighboring Tank district in ...
... suspected militants associated with the Taliban and the Haqqani Network to Afghanistan in November last year, a senior official has said. In a series of tweets, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said Pakistan “continued to push any suspected TTA (Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan) ...
She also admitted that Pakistan has legitimate concerns regarding Afghanistan government's failure, especially on the border management and the 'safe heavens' of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan. She also admitted the fact that “mutual respect and trust building” should be given due ...
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has for the first time claimed responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a ... The book also claims that the Taliban was behind another attack on Bhutto, carried out by two suicide bombers in October 2007 in Karachi, in which ...
The cleric, 93-year-old Sufi Mohammad, is the former chief of the banned pro-Taliban group the Tehrik Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammed, or TNSM. He became widely known after he went to Afghanistan with thousands of other armed volunteers to help the Taliban fight against Americans following the 2001 ...
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has not so far confirmed or denied whether the book was actually written by its leader. The book, which allegedly published from Afghanistan, read two suicide bombers, had targeted the two-time premier minutes after she addressed a public rally in garrison city of ...
Former president Pervez Musharraf had blamed the Tehreek- e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for the attack but the outfit had denied it. The book says suicide bombers Bilal, also known as Saeed, and Ikramullah were tasked to carry out the attack on Bhutto. “Bomber Bilal first fired at Benazir Bhutto from his pistol ...
Sufi Muhammad, the founder of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), was arrested in 2009 for hate speech against the government. He has been in jail since his arrest. Swat police had booked the TNSM chief for hate speech against the government in 2009. In that speech, Sufi Muhammad had ...
Jamaatul Ahrar, a splinter group of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, claimed credit for the deadly bombing in Parachinar, which came ...
The report noted the reduction in terrorism fatalities is due to a significant drop in Pakistan Tehreek-i-Taliban's activities. The terror group has ...
KARACHI: Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, daughter of former president Asif Ali Zardari, Monday termed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman ...
“Neither Kabul and the Coalition, nor the Afghan Taliban, can impose a ... including the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan and promote negotiations ...
“I see the recent increase in attacks by Taliban a reaction to the Trump ... that Pakistan brought in 2014 to the fight against Tehreek-e-Taliban ...
In South Asia, a tussle is underway between Islamic State (ISIS) and like-minded groups, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, which is currently ...
ISLAMABAD: The dreaded Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (TTP JuA) faces a rift as a senior leader and his supporters mull over ...
Above, Pakistani Taliban fighters. A spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the ...
16, 2014, the Army Public School was attacked by six gunmen related to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The gunmen killed 144 people as a ...
Second, to suppress the Taliban insurgency dissuading it to taking over Kabul, ... and hideouts of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Afghanistan.
This is how Mullah Omar was “kept alive” for over two years and how Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Fazlullah might still be ...
And yet the two Pakistani diplomatic abducted near Jalalabad, in June were kidnapped by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Mullah ...


 

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