ISLAMABAD
Group, allied with al-Qaida and is based in the West near the Afghan border, have been behind much of the violence that is tearing at Pakistan for 4 1/2 years. Known as the Of-e-Taliban, or TTP, the Taliban want to oust the US-backed Government and install an Islamic regime. They also have international ambitions and trained Pakistani-American who tried to detonate a car bomb in New York City
(Ishtiaq Mehsud, File/Associated Press) FILE-in this case this October 4, 2009 file photo, the Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud, can be seen in the area of Sararogha from Pakistan borders Afghanistan South Waziristan. The toxic mixture of militant groups who are hiding in Pakistan's tribal belt on the border with Afghanistan has been smashed into a group of more than 100. They ran out of money, command and control system is teetering on the brink of collapse and they sometimes take shots at each other.
Signs of first cracks within the Taliban leadership, the House appeared after Mehsud, was killed in a drone strike in August 2009, said Mahsud. Since then, the Group has continued to deteriorate.