Hafiz Gul Bahadur Hafiz Gul Bahadur ( born c . 1961 ) is the leader of a Pakistani Taliban faction based in North Waziristan . Upon the formation of the Tehrik - i - Taliban Pakistan ( TTP ) in December 2007 , he was announced as the militant group ' s overall " naib amir " under Baitullah Mehsud , who was based in South Waziristan , but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with Mehsud and disagreements about the TTP ' s attacks against the Pakistani state . Background . Gul Bahadur , a direct descendant of Mirza Ali Khan , is a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziri s . Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan , he is affiliated with the Jamiat Ulema - e - Islam - Fazal ( JUI - F ) political party . Gul Bahadur fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and later during the rule of the Taliban . In August 2001 he recruited about 4 , 000 volunteers to oppose the proposed placement of United Nations monitors , who were to prevent the flow of weapons from Pakistan to Afghanistan . Gul Bahadur objected because the monitors would have hampered the ability of Pakistani Pushtun s to support the Afghan Taliban against the Northern Alliance . ( The volunteer militia was never deployed , however , due in part to repercussions of the 9 / 11 attacks ) . Hafiz Gul Bahadur is closely allied with Sirajuddin Haqqani and provides him with a rear base in North Waziristan . Anti - American Taliban are headed by Gul Bahadur and Jalal - ud - Din Haqqani network . Activities . In 2005 the Pakistani military began operations within North Waziristan to pursue foreign , mainly al - Qaeda , militants fleeing from South Waziristan . They met resistance from militant groups led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur , among others . In September 2006 he negotiated a peace deal with the Pakistani military in which he agreed to expel all foreign militants , such as al - Qaeda and Uzbek militants , from Pakistani soil . After a year of fighting US - led forces in Afghanistan , he returned to Pakistan in late 2007 . In December he joined Baitullah Mehsud ' s Tehrik - e Taliban Pakistan ( TTP ) as its first deputy leader . Gul Bahadur attempted to distance himself from the TTP after the group began to attack government forces . Although no formal announcement of leaving the TTP occurred , Gul Bahadur often refused to coordinate activities with the TTP against the government . During late 2007 and early 2008 , Bahadur refused to assist Baitullah Mehsud against the Pakistani Army and urged him to refrain from fighting Pakistani forces in Razmak , North Waziristan . In July 2008 Gul Bahadur and Maulvi Nazir , leader of the Ahmedzai Wazirs in South Waziristan , announced the creation of the " Muqami Tehrik - e Taliban " , translated as the Local Taliban Movement and also referred to as the " Waziri Alliance " , with Gul Bahadur as its leader and Nazir as his deputy . In late 2008 missile strikes from U . S . drones in North Waziristan strained the peace deal with Islamabad that he had agreed previously to observe in 2006 . In March 2011 he threatened to pull out of the peace deal with Pakistani government after one of his top commanders Sherabat Khan Wazir was killed in Datta Khel airstrike .