22 Facts About Pakistan Taliban

On 25 August 2008, Pakistan Taliban banned the group, froze its bank accounts and assets, and barred it from media appearances.

Pakistan Taliban acknowledged turmoil among TTP leadership following the killing.

Pakistan Taliban maintained that Baitullah had not been killed, but rather was in bad health.

Pakistan Taliban reported to the AFP that both Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-ur-Rehman had approved his appointment as temporary leader of the militant group.

Some Uzbek and Arab fighters previously working with the TTP reportedly began leaving Pakistan Taliban to go to Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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TTP differs in structure to the Afghan Pakistan 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.

Pakistan Taliban was followed in the leadership hierarchy by Hafiz Gul Bahadur as naib amir, or deputy.

The Afghan Taliban however have historically relied on support from the Pakistani army in their campaign to control Afghanistan.

Major leaders of the Afghan Taliban including Mullah Omar, Jalaluddin Haqqani and Siraj Haqqani are believed to have enjoyed safe haven in 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.

However, despite the atrocities of the TTP, Pakistan was unable to persuade the Afghan Taliban to crack down on the TTP when the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021.

In November 2021, the Afghan Pakistan Taliban helped facilitate a one-month ceasefire between the government of prime minister Imran Khan and the TTP.

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.

In 2009 Pakistan launched offensives to force the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from its territory in South Waziristan.

Pakistan vehemently denies this claim, 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.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has close ties to Al Qaeda, sharing money and bomb experts and makers.

The Punjabi Taliban have reportedly developed strong connections with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi and various other groups based in the North West Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Shahbaz Sharif, the Punjab Chief Minister, has claimed that the term Punjabi Pakistan Taliban is "an insult to the Punjabis" and accuses that it was coined by Rehman Malik purposely on ethnic grounds.

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 Pakistan Taliban central Shura did not have the capacity to remove him because the Punjabi Pakistan Taliban is a separate group.

Pakistan Taliban added that his group has its own decision-making body to decide leadership and other matters.

Pakistan Taliban urged other warring groups to end violence in Pakistan.