A new Fata

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IN the wake of the successful military operation in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas, the demand for reforms here — referred to in Point 12 of the National Action Plan (NAP) — has become even louder. Fata, as a buffer between the settled areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been significantly impacted by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the subsequent US-led military interventions.