Agencies Of The Federally Administered Tribal Areas
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) (Pashto: وسطي قبایلي سیمې، منځنۍ پښتونخوا; Urdu: قبائلی علاقہ جات) is a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwest of Pakistan, lying between Afghanistan's provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktia, Khost and Paktika to the west and north, and the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the east and Balochistan to the south. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas comprise seven agencies (tribal districts) and six frontier regions. The territory is almost exclusively inhabited by Pashtun tribes, who also live in the neighboring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and eastern Afghanistan and are Muslims by faith. The territory is governed through the Frontier Crimes Regulations.
Read more about Agencies Of The Federally Administered Tribal Areas: History, Geography, Demographics, Democracy and Parliamentary Representation, Governance, Administrative Divisions, Economy, Health
Famous quotes containing the words agencies, federally, administered, tribal and/or areas:
“While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings—upon the spirit that animates mankind.”
—Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958)
“If men could menstruate ... clearly, menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event: Men would brag about how long and how much.... Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of such commercial brands as Paul Newman Tampons, Muhammed Ali’s Rope-a-Dope Pads, John Wayne Maxi Pads, and Joe Namath Jock Shields—”For Those Light Bachelor Days.””
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“[F]rankly ... it was perfectly true that I had, for over a year, expressed the opinion that Indo-China should not go back to France but that it should be administered by an international trusteeship. France has had the country ... for nearly one hundred years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning.... France has milked it for one hundred years. The people of Indo-China are entitled to something better than that.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)