Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (short:TTP) is a Pakistani terrorist organization. It has the same name like the afghan Taliban but it acts independent. The TTP attacks government buildings, security forces and cause suicide attacks. It also attacked the teenager Malala Yousafzai.

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Arabic : Student Movement of Pakistan) is the main foreign element of the Taliban. It is a splinter group centered in Pakistan, focusing primarily on conflict with the central government in Islamabad. It's mandate is to combat the Pakistani government, and aid the Afghanian Taliban in it's on-going struggle against NATO (See: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The history of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan is ambiguious at best; however a clear group assuming this name can be found in early 2002 with the Pakistani military push into the western provinces. The aim of the Pakistani push was to eradicate the enclaves of foreign jihadist fighters that had infiltrated across the porous Pakistani-Afghan border. The group has been identified as being led in 2007 by Baitullah Mehsud, a Waziristan militant commanding a brigade level force of tribal fighters. Baitullah Mehsud is believed to have died in a 2009 NATO air attack, but sources are uncertain.