The area concerned comprises the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The others are districts in the Balochistan Province, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Haqqani network is based in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which border on Afghanistan.
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Born in Khyber in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border of Afghanistan, the second of five brothers, he had a rather primitive start.
Following the government's capitulation in Swat, the Taliban now controls 18 out of Pakistan's 30 provinces in its northwest and Federally Administered Tribal Areas that border Afghanistan.
The military's on again-off again campaign against these militants in the country's Federally Administered Tribal Areas has failed to end violent attacks on ordinary citizens and government targets.
Al Qaeda, of course, has been able resuscitate itself and revive its fortunes precisely because of the acquisition of a sanctuary in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
In recent years, the CIA has carried out a covert aerial campaign targeting al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas using unmanned drones.
In recent years, the violence has spread from southern Punjab and (sporadically) Karachi to Quetta in Balochistan, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on Pakistan's troubled border with Afghanistan.
In 2010, UNESCO provided training to journalists in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan focusing on conflict reporting skills, ethical reporting standards, as well as safety and security of media workers in conflict zones.
As a result of the Musharraf government's ineffectualness in contending with radical Islamic forces in the country, in the past two years the Taliban has asserted its authority over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan.
During those interviews, investigators said Najibullah Zazi admitted he attended courses and received instructions on weapons and explosives at an al Qaeda training facility in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan during a 2008 trip there.
Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), of which Khyber is a part, is essentially a buffer between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and was carved by British colonial rulers out of Afghan territory as a bulwark against a possible Russian invasion of British India.
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During the summer of 2010 the New America Foundation sponsored one of the few public opinion polls ever to be conducted in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and found that almost 90% of the respondents opposed U.S. military operations in the region.
Pakistani Taliban have relentlessly targeted the ANP since it was elected in 2008 to rule the mainly ethnic Pashtun province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a strategically important region that lies on the border with Afghanistan and next to militants' sanctuaries in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Instead, the problems stem from a Pakistani intelligence service playing both sides of the fence, which even the United States government has acknowledged, while an incompetent Pakistani government fails to shut down Al Qaeda's bases in the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) region of Pakistan.
The New America Foundation conducted one of the few public opinion polls in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas during the summer of 2010 and found that almost 90% of the respondents in the region where the drone strikes are located oppose U.S. military operations in the region.
While six years ago only a small part of the tribal territories bordering Afghanistan was under extremist control, today much of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are no longer under the writ of Pakistan law and terrorist mayhem and chaos is spreading further and further outside of them.
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