Re: FATA
The laws residents of FATA are governed by are quite different from the rets of pakistan. They are governed by the frontier crimes regulation, a backward exploitative colonial system introduced by the British and maintained by the GoP because it allows ease of exploitation. The political agents posted in FATA used to serve virtually as Kings. They are not accountable to anybody save the governor of NWFP, Federal minister SAFRON and President of Pakistan. Till 1997 the locals were not allowed to vote directly, their MNA's were selected through tribal maliks..also political parties were not allowed to operate in the area, the end result is politically the only two groups that have been allowed to develop are a pro gov rich class that sides with the gov in power and the MMA because madrassahs have been allowed to develop freely in the region to support the afghan mujahidin and the taliban.
FATA has no respresentation in the National finance commission which distributes money to the provinces and it's only source of development is federal expenditure, which was generally unaudited and dependant on the interest of thee gov at the time. According to most estimates it had till recently the lowest per person expenditure of any region in Pakistan, while at the same time the GoP was unwilling to reform the system because of the huge benefits civil servants and military officers benefitted from postings there,