Administrative vacuum continues in erstwhile Fata
(WorldNews Pakistan)

PESHAWAR: The two recent incidents in South Waziristan tribal district where local armed tribesmen trampled all laws and took punitive action against their rivals has raised serious questions over merger of the tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and failure of the state institutions to implement laws to protect the weaker communities. Presently there is neither the old governance system nor the new one in the erstwhile tribal areas and like the tribespeople the government officials are also confused about delivery of services. Government officials in the past used to exercise unchallenged powers in the erstwhile Fata, but are now publicly admitting having lost all powers after the...