Frontier Regions Explained

The Frontier Regions (often abbreviated as FR) of Pakistan were a group of small administrative units in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), lying immediately to the east of the seven main tribal agencies and west of the settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Each of the Frontier Regions was named after an adjoining settled district and was administered by the district coordination officer (DCO) of that adjacent district.^[1] The overall administration of the Frontier Regions was carried out by the FATA Secretariat based in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The six Frontier Regions were:

Region	DCO	Area (km^2)^[2]	Population	Population density (inh. per km^2)
Frontier Region Bannu	M. Javed Marwat	745	19,593	26
Frontier Region Dera Ismail Khan	Syed Mohsin Shah	2,008	38,990	19
Frontier Region Kohat	Mr. Siraj Ahmad	446	88,456	198
Frontier Region Lakki Marwat	M. Anwar Khan Mehsud	132	6,987	53
Frontier Region Peshawar	Sahibzada M. Anees	261	53,841	206
Frontier Region Tank	Barkat Ullah	1,221	27,216	22
Total		4,813	235,083	49

See also

• Federally Administered Tribal Areas
• Bannu District
• Dera Ismail Khan District
• Kohat District
• Lakki Marwat District
• Peshawar District
• Tank District

External links

• Government of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
• Pakistani Federal Ministry of States and Frontier Regions

Notes and References

1. Web site: Administrative System . FATA Secretariat . 2010-04-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100330093648/http://www.fata.gov.pk/subpages/admnsystem.php . March 30, 2010 .
2. Web site: Population . FATA Secretariat . 2010-04-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090303151519/http://fata.gov.pk/subpages/population.php . March 3, 2009 .