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FATA, both historically and traditionally had a unique administrative and political status from the British times since 1849. It has been and continues to be both, an enigma and a dilemma. Today, FATA is regarded as the centre of international terrorist activities providing safe haven to different international terrorist groups. FATA is not an ungovernable territory. But the state has elected to govern it through local proxies and draconian colonial-era administrative structures and laws. Failure to come up with a clear vision for integrated development in FATA, as a sustainable solution to all that troubles the region, has kept the people marginalised and impoverished. In this opportunity-vacuum, tribesmen have been left to their own devices, vulnerable to exploitation at the hands of criminal and extremist elements from within and outside. Decision makers can, however, no longer afford to remain indifferent to the development of the area. An integrated and sustainable development strategy is badly needed to put FATA on the path to peace and prosperity along with the rest of the country.

M. Maqbool Khan Wazir. (2011) Geopolitics of Fata After 9/11 , IPRI Journal, Volume-11, Issue-1.
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