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Reuters
ISLAMABAD
Pakistan's parliament on Thursday passed legislation to merge the country's tribal regions along the Afghan border with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a key step to ending the region's much-criticised colonial era governance system.
While security in the restive region has improved, for years Islamist militants including the Taliban and al Qaeda have used Waziristan and its surrounding tribal areas to train and launch attacks in Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan, in part because the region has no government writ. As a result, the region is central to efforts by Washington, Islamabad and others to combat militants.
The semi-autonomous region consists of seven big district and six towns known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and has been governed for over 150 years by colonial era tribal laws.
.The law this parliament passed today will, God willing, bring positive results,"Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said.
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