Security Council report noted that the TTP has a troop size in the range of 2,500 to 6,000 fighters.Amira Jadoon, The Evolution and Potential Resurgence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2021), 11, Letter dated 21 January 2021 from the Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities addressed to the President of the Security Council, United Nations Security Council, February 3, 2021, Financing: The TTPs financial networks during its early years were difficult to track, but locals believed the group relied on taxing trucks that passed through its territory, ransoming captured western journalists, and funds from al-Qaeda.Imtiaz Ali, Commander of the Faithful, Foreign Policy , July 9, 2009, archived in the Internet Archive, According to a private security analyst in Pakistan in 2009, the TTP also relied heavily on the trade of counterfeit cigarettes, which may have accounted for 20 percent of their funding at the time.Aamir Latif and Kate Willson, The Taliban and Tobacco, Center for Public Integrity, last updated May 19, 2014, In 2010, a GlobalPost report alleged that the TTP also imposed jizya (a sharia-mandated tax on non-Muslims living in Muslim lands) on the Sikh minority in areas under their control.Shahan Mufti, Funding the Pakistani Taliban, GlobalPost, May 30, 2010, In recent years, TTP financing has come from four main sources: kidnappings, natural resources, extortion and taxation of locals, and donations and gifts.Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Mapping Militant Organizations, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, last modified July 2018, 6, Sana Jamal and M
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