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- Title
Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan: Study of a Special Model of Governance.
- Authors
Ullah, Altaf
- Abstract
Although the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) is an integral part of Pakistan, yet its political and administrative mechanism is quite different from rest of the state's territories. The theoretical framework for the governance of FATA is enshrined in the historic regulation called Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) designed and implemented by the colonial government in British India during the nineteenth century. After the division of the Subcontinent in August 1947, the newly established State of Pakistan continued with the same regulation to govern these areas directly. Despite many drawbacks, it was applied to maintain status quo in the tribal areas of the country. Since then the state could neither fully integrate these areas in its mainstream nor could properly introduce such reforms which could bring FATA at par with other parts of the country. The extraordinary powers in the hands of political administration of FATA seem to be one of the major factors responsible for its overall miserable condition. Along with historical background, this research paper critically analyses the pros and cons of legal-administrative set up of FATA provided by the FCR on one hand and the reforms package introduced through the Frontier Crimes (Amendment) Regulation 2011 on the other.
- Subjects
FEDERALLY Administered Tribal Areas (Pakistan); CRIME prevention
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of History & Culture, 2013, Vol 34, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
1012-7682
- Publication type
Article