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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.
Although the British never succeeded in completely calming unrest in the region, [4] it served as a buffer from unrest in Afghanistan. [5] The British Colonial Government attempted to control the population of the annexed tribal regions with the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR), which granted large amounts of power to local leaders along the North-West Frontier as part of the process of ...
[11] [12] At its inception, Pakistan consisted of two wings, which were separated from each other by around 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) of Indian territory. The western wing consisted of a merger of the North-West Frontier Province, West Punjab, Sind Province, and Baluchistan CCP. The eastern wing consisted of East Bengal.
FATA was governed primarily through the Frontier Crimes Regulation 1901. It was administered directly by Governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in his capacity as an agent to the President of Pakistan, under the overall supervision of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions in Islamabad. [2]
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 ...
Prior to 2018, this administrative subdivision was known as Peshawar Subdivision, and formerly also known as Frontier Region Peshawar was a subdivision of Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The region was named after Peshawar District which lies to the north and west. [2]
The areas within each of those two regions are geographically arranged in a sequence from north to south. The geographical arrangement of the seven Tribal Districts in order from north to south is: Bajaur District , Mohmand District , Khyber District , Orakzai District , Kurram District , North Waziristan District , Mahsud (Upper South ...
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.