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FCR was repealed and replaced with the new Rewaj Regulation for Tribal Areas; Party-based Provincial Government elections were held for the first time in erstwhile-Fata in July 2019. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Peshawar High Court was extended to erstwhile-Fata. Ex-Fata elected their own representatives to the K-P ...
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, [a] commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 through the Twenty-fifth amendment to the constitution of Pakistan.
On 20 July 2019, for the first time in the history of the Former FATA Region, Elections for Provincial Assembly were held. Over 2.8 million residents of tribal areas were made eligible for the first time to elect representatives on provincial level. [5] Ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got majority of the seats in the by-elections. Members ...
During the British Raj, the frontier regions of the Assam province populated by tribal communities were designated as "excluded areas" or "partially excluded areas". The North-East Frontier Tracts (present-day Arunachal Pradesh), the Naga Hills district (present-day Nagaland) and the Lushai Hills district (present-day Mizoram) were designated as "excluded areas", while the Khasi and Jaintia ...
An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located.
In 1914, some tribal-majority areas were separated from the former Darrang and Lakhimpur districts of Assam Province of British India to form the North-East Frontier Tract (NEFT). The NEFT was initially divided into two sections: (i) the Central and Eastern Section (made up of the former Dibrugarh Frontier Tract (created in 1884) and some more ...
In January 1971, the native administration system was formally abolished, [4]: 440 and tribal chiefs and their relatives were excluded from participating in local government. [7] In the northern areas of the country, all that remained of native administration in the new local government system was the position of village sheikh. This position ...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...