The Frontier Regions (often abbreviated as FR) of
Pakistan were a group of small administrative units in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), lying immediately to the east of the
seven main tribal agencies and west of the settled districts of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Each of the Frontier Regions was named after an adjoining settled district and was administered by the district coordination officer (DCO) of that adjacent district.
The overall administration of the Frontier Regions was carried out by the
FATA Secretariat Administrative System of FATA was the system by which semi-autonomous tribal region of Federally Administered Tribal Areas was governed.
Historical Constitutional Status of FATA
Before 25th Amendment to Constitution of Pakistan, FATA was federall ...
based in
Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The six Frontier Regions were:
See also
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Federally Administered Tribal Areas
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Bannu District
Bannu District ( ps, بنو ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Bannu Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was recorded as a district in 1861 during the British Raj. It is one of 26 districts that make up the Khyber Pakh ...
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Dera Ismail Khan District
Dera Ismail Khan District ( ps, ډېره اسماعیل خان ولسوالي, bal, ڈیرہ عِسمائیل خان, ur, , skr, ; often abbreviated as D.I. Khan) is a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in P ...
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Kohat District
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Lakki Marwat District
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Peshawar District
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Tank District
Tank District ( ps, ټانک ولسوالۍ, ur, '; skr, ') is a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The city of Tank is the capital of the district, which consists of Union Council City I and U ...
References
External links
Government of the Federally Administered Tribal AreasPakistani Federal Ministry of States and Frontier Regions
{{coord missing, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Former subdivisions of Pakistan
Frontier
A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts o ...
States and territories disestablished in 2018
2010s disestablishments in Pakistan