Terror Organization: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

Status: Deputy Emir

Role: The TTP Established in December 2007, the TTP is a conglomerate of around 40 tribal and non-tribal Pakistani militant groups fighting against the state of Pakistan, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), and U.S.-led coalition forces. Several TTP members fought in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and as of 2022, TTP still maintains close ties to both organizations. At the head of the TTP is its emir Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, who is supported by three deputy emirs—Amjad, Omar Khalid Khurasani, and Mawlawi Faqir Mohammad. Amjad presumably has been TTP’s deputy emir since the group’s founding.

On November 28, 2022, the TTP announced that its leadership has decided to end a ceasefire with Pakistan’s government. The militant group announced an indefinite ceasefire with Islamabad on June 2, 2022, but in a TTP statement, the group claimed that the Pakistani military is increasing the number of attacks against the group, particularly in the Lakki Marwat district of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the same statement, the TTP also encouraged their fighters to launch retaliatory attacks against Islamabad.

Location: Pakistan

Also Known As: Qari Amjad; Mufti Hazrat; Mufti Muzahim; Amjad;

Date of Birth: April 17, 1979

Place of Birth: Samar Bagh, Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Place of Residence: Dangam, Kunar, Afghanistan

Citizenship: Pakistani

Activities:

Mufti Hazrat Deroji, also known as Qari Amjad, is the U.S.-designated deputy emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Given Amjad’s leadership role in the TTP, the U.S. Department of State designated Amjad as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) on November 30, 2022.

Established in December 2007, the TTP is a conglomerate of around 40 tribal and non-tribal Pakistani militant groups fighting against the state of Pakistan, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), and U.S.-led coalition forces. A number of TTP members fought in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and as of 2022, TTP still maintains close ties to both organizations.* At the head of the TTP is its emir Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, who is supported by three deputy emirs—Amjad, Omar Khalid Khurasani, and Mawlawi Faqir Mohammad.*Amjad presumably has been TTP’s deputy emir since the group’s founding.