Completly wrong.
They had no such deal, pakistan was a MODERN state, not a left over colony, they had no such 'deal' in 1975, the rise of Islamic extremists in pakisatn has occured only over the last 15 years, not the last 30.
The so called 'tribal area' is a federally administered tribal area (FATA for short) that has never until recently defied Islamabad's directives.
Wrong again, but at least you are consistant.
They did not 'exist' before then, the group was formed by Mullah omar and funded by Pakistani Intelligence with the purpose of weakening the warlords and the Northen Alliance's hold on Northern Afghanistan. The Taliban was welcomed at first as they supressed the warlords and ended the banidtry, but before long the more sinister aspects surfaced, that they followed a form of whabbist Sunni faith, and considered Shia to be infidels.
Pakistan is 80% Sunni and 20% shia meaning that the Taliban consider one 5th of the popualtion heratics who must be killed.
They were not intended to operate inside Pakistan at all.
I said I have known this since 1975, it has been happening a lot longer than that. Of course it is NOT a formal agreement, and they are tribal areas, not area. I think you should bone up on the country before talking about it. The country is part of the Commonwealth, as are we, we have stuided the country a lot longer than you have and it's history. Like most Yanks you probably didn't even know it existed until Musharef and the Taliban came on your radar.
The only thing I'll give you is that the fundies are looking to take over the govt, but that will never happen - at least in the cities, with the exception of maybe Karachi.
As for the Taliban, they were around before 1990, but not called the Taliban.
Thing is you Yanks like to nicely compartmentalise things, like believing AQ is this very organised group of ijits, when in fact it's just a random group of ijits who believe in the same thing....