From bajaur to south waziristan you have TTP in each and every agency. TTP is present even in settled districts.
Tribals are not african savages, they even negotiated and made treaties with British, the tribals always insisted that they should be allowed to handle talibans on their own, pak army refused and messed things up. Now entire pashtun framework of society is destroyed, malaks are killed, institution of jirga and pashtun lashkars are destroyed, talibans are running every thing. Tribal hate pak army, but it doesnt mean that they also hate pakistan as pak army is not pakistan for them like you punjabis...imran khan is surely talib khan but he basically understand that from where things went wrong.