10 Facts About Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

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

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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan acknowledged turmoil among TTP leadership following the killing.

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3.

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

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4.

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

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5.

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

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

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

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9.

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

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10.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan urged other warring groups to end violence in Pakistan.

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