In a statement issued by TTP spokesman Mohammad Khurasani on Monday, the armed group said the media houses and the journalists using epithets such as "terrorists and extremists"  for them will be identified as "enemies".

"Using such terms for TTP showed a partisan role of media and journalists," the Dawn newspaper quoted the online statement by the TTP.

Khurasani said his organisation was tracking media coverage which branded the TTP as a "terrorist outfit" or called it an extremist group.

"Such labels on the TTP meant the media professionals were dishonest towards their duty and would create enemies for itself," Mohammad Khurasani said.

He said the media should call the organisation only by its name Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.

TTP was formed in 2007 and the government listed it as a banned outfit in August 2008, following targeted attacks on civilians.

In 2009, TTP's first chief, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a drone strike by the US.

In 2014, the Pakistan government banned the offshoot organisations of TTP as part of its National Action Plan and stopped the media from its so-called "glorification of militants".

Caught between the militants and the government's war on terror, at least 30 newspersons have been killed in the erstwhile Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the last ten years.