Hafiz Gul Bahadur group (Urdu: حافظ گل بہادر گروپ) or HGB is a faction of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) based in North Waziristan and surrounding districts of the former FATA region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Bahadur organized resistance against a Pakistani operation in the northwest in 2005, later signing a peace deal with the government in 2006 and becoming the leader of the local Taliban in North Waziristan.

Utilizing his position, Bahadur served as chief negotiator in multiple peace talks and ceasefires between tribal militants and the Pakistani government.

He rose to prominence in 2005 for leading armed opposition against the Pakistani military which had begun operations in 2004 to evict foreign fighters, mainly al-Qaeda, from Waziristan.

Amid peace talks, the Pakistani Taliban was officially formed in December 2007 with Bahadur being named as first deputy leader under Baitullah Mehsud, who led armed opposition against Pakistan.

[7] Bahadur opposed US drone strikes within Pakistan, threatening to pull out of their agreement with the government after the Datta Khel airstrike on 17 March 2011 which killed HGB commander Sherabat Khan Wazir.

[3] The Pakistani government has accused the Afghan Taliban of allowing HGB and commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur to reside in Afghanistan and use their land as a staging ground for attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

[10] On 3 June, HGB and the TTP launched a joint attack on a security checkpoint in Jani Khel, Bannu, killing two soldiers and losing two members in a gunfight.

[14] On 9 August, HGB launched three attacks on different military posts in Tirah Valley along the Afghan border, killing three Pakistani soldiers and wounding dozens while suffering four casualties.

[18] Hafiz Gul Bahadur (Urdu: حافظ گل بہادر, born c.1961) hails from the Madda Khel clan of the Utmanzai Wazir and was raised in a village in North Waziristan.

[5][3] He was also a leader of the student wing of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in North Waziristan, receiving attention in 2001 for recruiting a militia of 4,000 in opposition to United Nations monitors who were set to deploy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in order to prevent flow of weapons to the Afghan Taliban.

[19] 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.