Federally Administered Tribal Areas

…Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formerly designated as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)—have become a haven for members of several militant Islamist groups, including the Taliban of neighboring Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. In various parts of the country, instances of ethnic, religious, and social conflict have flared up from…

…Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan—particularly the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA; now part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) along the Afghan border—became a safe haven for such militants from all parts of the world. The Pakistani military’s Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate (ISI) became the main conduit of the country’s support of the Afghan mujahideen…