Provincially Administered Tribal Areas

The Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) are Pakistani administrative subdivisions 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.

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)

  Dir District (Upper Dir and Lower Dir, former Dir state)

  Swat District (former Swat state including Kalam)

  Tribal Area in Kohistan District

  Malakand District

  Tribal Area adjoining Mansehra District (Battagram, Allai and Black Mountain of Hazara, Upper Tanawalormer) and former Amb state.

• Balochistan

  Zhob District

  Loralai District (excluding the Duki Tehsil)

  Dalbandin Tehsil of Chagai District

  Kohlu District (former Marri Tribal Territory in Sibi District)

  Dera Bugti District (former Bugti Tribal Territory in Sibi District)

See also

• Federally Administered Tribal Areas

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External links

• Constitution of Pakistan; Tribal Areas