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Federally Administered Tribal Areas

1947–2018 semi-autonomous region in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (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. It consisted of seven tribal agencies (districts) and six frontier regions, and were directly governed by the federal government through a special set of laws called the Frontier Crimes Regulations.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Federally Administered Tribal Areas” is 1947–2018 semi-autonomous region in Pakistan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Federally, Administered and Tribal, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Federally, Administered and Tribal is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1947–2018 semi-autonomous region in Pakistan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Federally Administered Tribal Areas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.