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The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are a semi-autonomous region in the north-west of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan to the west and north, and the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the east and Baluchistan to the south. Pakhtun tribes mainly inhabit the territory. Here, and in the neighbouring areas, the traditional justice system of the Pakhtuns, called jirga, continues to be dominant.
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© 2015 Tilmann J. Röder and Naveed A. Shinwari
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Röder, T.J., Shinwari, N.A. (2015). Pakistan: Jirgas Dispensing Justice without State Control. In: Kötter, M., Röder, T.J., Schuppert, G.F., Wolfrum, R. (eds) Non-State Justice Institutions and the Law. Governance and Limited Statehood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403285_2
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