Bajaur political diary: Electioneering in FATA's smallest agency

Afghanistan: Durand Line, Greater Tajikistan, Federally Administered Tribal Agency (FATA) Foreign-Drawn, Ethnically Biased, Artificial Demarcations The Durand Line originally posed as a line separating or demarcating spheres of influence between ...

SHABQADAR: In the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) where politics is based on kinship and tribal affiliations, three people from the same family are contesting for one National Assembly seat. In NA-36 Mohmand Agency, three candidates ...

GHALLANAI: The NA-36 Mohmand Agency constituency has the highest number of contestants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). About 40 candidates will be contesting for the seat. Eight candidates have ...

The battle for key heights in Tirah valley, located in the Kurram and Khyber agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, intensified on Monday as jet fighters and gunship helicopters pounded militant positions. Military sources ...

PESHAWAR: Candidates from three Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) constituencies NA-36, NA-41 and NA-44 have alleged rigging on Election Day and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to conduct a re-election in their ...

PESHAWAR: A three-day anti-polio drive has kicked off in most parts of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), except in Mehsood-dominated areas in South Wazirsitan. The anti-polio campaign was inaugurated here on Monday at the Fata ...

The neglected disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis is on the rise in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), according to reports by the FATA Directorate of Health. In response, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans ...

LANDI KOTAL, April 28: Three government-run radio stations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are faced with the danger of closure, as the Fata Secretariat has withheld payment of salaries to employees and other related operational ...

SHABQADAR: In August 2011, President Asif Ali Zardari extended the Political Parties Act of 2002 to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a move locals hoped would pave the way for the area to be free from tribal obligations in politics.