Provincially Administered Tribal Areas
The Provincially Administered Tribal Area (PATA) was the former administrative subdivision of Pakistan designated in the Article 246(b) of the Constitution of Pakistan. No Act of Provincial Assembly can be applied to PATA whereas the Governor of the respective province has mandate parallel to the authority President of Pakistan has over Federally Administered Tribal Areas. In 2018, a Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan merged PATA, as well as FATA into full control of the Khyber-Paktunkhwa government, thus the PATA designation has no legal standing in the future of Khyber-Paktunkhwa.[1]
Provincially Administered Tribal Areas as defined in the Constitution include four former princely states as well as tribal areas and tribal territories in districts:
- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- Chitral District (former Chitral state)
- Upper Dir District (former Dir state)
- Lower Dir District (former Dir state)
- Swat District (former Swat state including Kalam)
- Buner District
- Shangla District
- Kohistan District
- Kala Dhaka District
- Malakand and Tribal Area adjoining Mansehra District (Battagram, Allai and Upper ) and former Amb state.
- Balochistan
- Zhob District
- Killa Saifullah District
- Musakhel District
- Sherani District
- Loralai District
- Barkhan District
- Kohlu District
- Dera Bugti District
- Dalbandin Tehsil of Chagai District
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- Provincially Administered Tribal Areas
- States and territories established in 1970
- Federalism in Pakistan
- Geography of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Durand line
- Regions of Pakistan
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa geography stubs
- Balochistan (Pakistan) geography stubs