The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is a semi-autonomous tribal region in north western pakistan, bording, Pakistan's provinces of khyber pakhtunkhuwa and Balochistan to the east and south, and Afghanistan's province of Kunar' Nagarhar, Paktia, Khost and Paktika to the west and north. The FATA comprises seven tribal agencies (districts) and six frontier regions which are directly governed by Pakistan's Federal Government through a special set of laws called the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR). The territory is almost exclusively inhabited by the pashtuns, who also live in the neighbouring khyber pakhtunkhuwa and Aghanistan. They are Muslims by faith. Main towns of this territory are parachinar, Miranshah, Razmak, Kaniguram, Wana, kalaya, Landi, Kotal, Ghalanai and Khaar. Th...