Abstract
Pakistan Tribal Areas are distinct due to their buffer status between Afghanistan and
Pakistan’s settled areas. This territory has been kept bereft throughout the history,
whether it was under the British rule or now as federally administered. Throughout
the history this area is strewn with own settled customs and traditions. The
administration of justice system is till date through Jirga and by draconian law codes
of Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR) which are ignominious to today’s civilized world.
Though the people of FATA are repeatedly demanding reforms in their legal and
political structure, but no civilian or military government has tried to remake these
codes according to geo-political dynamics. Consequently, the regional geo-strategic
trend has made FATA an origin from where the country security and stability is
methodically weakening. The structure in FATA is unable to grasp the nettle whereby
the agent powers exceed in agent-structure paradigm. The best policy options for
these fault lines at this critical juncture can be constitutional reforms of FATA related
articles, and to conjure society structure which could match with the evolutionary
capacity of FATA.
