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The semi-autonomous region was controlled by the federal government of Pakistan through the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Constitution of Pakistan contained special provisions for the governing of the FATA, together with the colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR).
The Former FATA region was amongst the most impoverished parts of the nation. Despite being home to 2.4% of Pakistan's population, it made up only 1.5% of Pakistan's economy with a per capita income of only $663 in 2010 [36] only 34% of households managed to rise above the poverty level. [37]
Location of the Frontier Regions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The Frontier Regions (often abbreviated as FR) of Pakistan were a group of small administrative units in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), lying immediately to the east of the seven main tribal agencies and west of the settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; Pashto: شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, Urdu: شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010.
The North-West Frontier (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was a region of the British Indian Empire.It remains the western frontier of present-day Pakistan, extending from the Pamir Knot in the north to the Koh-i-Malik Siah in the west, [2] and separating the modern Pakistani frontier regions of North-West Frontier Province (renamed as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Federally Administered Tribal Areas ...
The Ministry of States and Frontier Regions Urdu: وزارتِ ریاستی و سرحدی امور, wazarat-e- reyasti o sarhadi umoor (abbreviated as SAFRON) is a federal ministry in Pakistan. [ 2 ] The main responsibilities of the ministry are the administrative affairs and development activities in the tribal areas of Pakistan, including ...
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
Bettani Tehsil is an administrative subdivision of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.This subdivision shares its boundary on the north with Bannu Subdivision, on the west with Jandola Tehsil (Formerly Tank Frontier Region), to the west with North and South Waziristan and to the northeast with the district of Lakki Marwat.