Government of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The government of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas was the system by which the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan were governed, until its merger with the neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The semi-autonomous region was controlled by the federal government of Pakistan through the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Constitution of Pakistan contained special provisions for the governing of the FATA, together with the colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR). According to the now–repealed Article 247 of the Constitution of Pakistan, the FATA were outside the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the provincial High Courts or indeed the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.