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The Time Is Now

The time is now

The Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) is a black law and a living legacy of British imperialism. It has enslaved millions of helpless people in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).…

Changing Fata

Changing Fata

In 1901, the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) was promulgated in Fata. The regulation was originally drafted in 1872 by the British rulers. In order to strengthen their colonial empire, the…

Botching Fata Reforms

Botching Fata reforms

For republican purists – those of us that believe in a coherent state guided by a consistent rule of law – reforms in Fata are long overdue because the special…

Fata’s Fate

Fata’s fate

Deciding the future status of Fata took a new turn when JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman demanded that the opinion of the people of the tribal belt must be sought…

Equality For Fata

Equality for Fata

My friends still remember how, when I was finishing with my high school, I was going through a very traumatic time. My father was incarcerated in Haripur jail under sections…

Workers In Fata

Workers in Fata

For decades, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) presented an image of its people as fierce, loyal to tribal customs, and living under the harsh colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR),…

Will Fata always be Fata?

A lot has been written in the print and electronic media about mainstreaming Fata but nothing concrete has emerged so far except the creation of a five-member commission by the…

Let’s Save Fata

Let’s save Fata

Mainstreaming Fata is not a joke; it should not be left just to the few parliamentarians from that area or the five-member committee constituted by the government for that purpose.…

A Law For Fata

A law for Fata

The federal government has decided, in principal, to end the legal tyranny of political agents (PA) by abolishing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), If it is implemented as planned, the…

A New Fata

A new Fata

In the wake of the successful military operation in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas, the demand for reforms here — referred to in Point 12 of the National Action Plan…