Assessing the Position of the Pakistani Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Stabilizing the Region’s Security Crisis

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PhD Student in Political Geography, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography, Tehran, Iran

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Assessing the Position of the Pakistani Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Stabilizing the Region’s Security Crisis
Pakistani tribal areas is an effective security vacuum for extra-regional industry in the East-West trade route to monitor the performance of china, Russia and Southeast Asia as trade –industrial giants, as well as control over mineral reserves and transit routes. Also energy is known there. In this article, using descriptive –analytical method, while answering the question of how the position of Pakistan Federal Tribal Areas in the spread of security crisis in the region is evaluated, we conclude that federal tribal areas due to legal gaps, lack of central government supervision and the full authority of tribal leaders in legal processes has created a favorable environment for the maintenance, growth, upbringing and training of Islamic radical groups as highly effective arms of the industrial powers implement economic-security plans, which can lead to insecurity and insecurity. They created stability and expanded the security crisis in the region.

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  • Receive Date: 23 February 2021
  • Accept Date: 29 March 2021

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